The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-10-14
FUN FOR THE BEARS.
How the Animals at Lincoln Park Take
the Cold Weather-Attempted Sui
eide.

The effect of the recent sudden change
III the weather was nowhere more
noticeable than among the animals at
Lincoln Park Those of them which
come from cold climates and delight in
frosts and chilling winds seemed great
ly pleased with the change. The sea
lions have not been so active for months
as they were the other day. Bright and
early they were out splashing around
in the little lake which surrounds their
cave of rocks. Later they ate their
breakfast with apparent relish, and then
started out for game of tag which last
ed for two hours.
They don't like the warm weather
and always brighten up when it turns
cooler" said their keeper Il think
an unusually long stretch of warm
during the middle of summer they don't
eat regularly, and seem distressed. A
day like this puts them on their legs, or
rather, their fins, cause they amt got
legs
The big polar bear, which has spent
hours and hours during the summer sit
ting on a cake of ice and meditating,
was scrambling around yesterday in a
manner which showed that he had de-
cided to take more hopeful view of
life. The smaller bears, which had
pushed him around the last few months
before because he was too lazy to knock
them away, were very much surprised
when he knocked saucy cinnamon
bear half way across the den with a
swoop of his left paw. The keeper was
leaning over the iron fence when this
occurred and it made him laugh hearth
ly.
''Give it TO him, Jack" he shouted.
you've walked up now for the rest of
the year. Give the black fellow sloog
behind We"
Sure enough, big Jack turned quickly
and sent the inquisitive black bear
spinning head over heels.
Hes suffered dreadfully from the
hot weather. resumed the keeper
''Some days he was an awful sight, Sit
ting on cake of ice, with his big red
tongue a-hangin' out. | had to watch
him pretty sharp for fear he'd get
sunstroke. If the hot weather had last
ed week longer I'd had to get barrel
of ice-cream for him, even if paid for
it myself.
OOcS ut llh6 lC6-ClGdL1! wen l.
should say he did. One day last sum-
mer a young lady let fall paper box
filed with it into the den. Jack got it.
1t beat honey all hollow, and was
the greatest invention he'd ever struck"
The prairie dogs did not seem to care
a rap whether the weather was warm or
cold. They lodged in and out of their
holes with all their accustomed brisk
ness. The raccoons, badgers, wolves,
and foxes all enjoyed the cool wave,
and for the first day in two months kept
their tongues inside their mouths for an
hours stretch.
The other side of the case was the
feeling generated in the monkey cage
All the hairy little inhabitants had
chiIls, and altogether they were so mis-
cradle that they looked like group Of
condemned anarchists. The saddest
case of all was the little blue-nosed ba-
boon from middle Africa. He shook
and shivered all the morning, whining
piteously. At o'clock, having shaken
hands with all his companions, he
created a sensation by trying to commit
suicide. In the cage was pail of
water. With parting shudder he sud-
denly plunged his head into the pail
and held it there. The rest of the mon
keys set up a yell which attracted the
attention of a keeper. who rushed to
the cage. The suicidal baboon would
have undoubtedly succeeded in taking
his own life before the keeper got to
him, but just as he was about to make
his last kick a big prehensile monkey
lethimself down from a bar and pulled
the little fellow out of the pail.-CAica-
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