 The carousel is one of the three oldest surviving Dentzel menagerie carousels . Thirty @-@ one of its 42 wood @-@ carved animals are horses , 17 standing and 14 jumping . There are also three goats , three giraffes , three deer , one lion , and one tiger . The single lion and tiger are typical of Dentzel @-@ created carousels , as are the three giraffes ; Gustav Dentzel 's love of that animal resulted in all of his carousels including at least one row of giraffes . The animals are arranged in three circles around the central mechanism , alternating leaping or jumping horses with stationary animals . Typical for a Mangels @-@ Illions manufactured carousel , there are 18 jumping animals , all but one of which is original ; the horse that could not be found in 1975 was replaced with another Dentzel horse . Although the animals were not originally carved to display jewels , at some point they were so displayed at the amusement park , and thus the museum restored the animals on the outside circle with jewels . 
