Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-25

being gradually asud surely killed or
driven into smaller territory through the
spread OF civilized and semi civilized
man, are necessarily driven into country
inaccessible to man In some cases, and in
others theg are becoming extinct. In the
second place, they will die out in esp
tivity.
"In our country less than twenty years
| ago the buffalo roamed in herds. Passen-
gers seated in luxuriousIy finished rail-
road coaches leveled their rifles tom the
windows and shot the noble animals for
the fun Of the thing st their leisure. Now
the wild buffalo is practically extinct.
We have q fine herd here, but in time they
too will die out. However finely some Of
the captive born animals msY sppear for
time to thrive, unless they are rein
forced by some OF the originsl wild stock
they d1lndle down in time, and l have
no doubt will eventually die out"
What is true Of the buffalo In North
America is in G great measure the fact OF
the antelope, the elk, the white tailed
deer, the gray wolf, the bear except the
grizzly and many others. Beavers,
prairie days, foxes and other OF the small
er animals are becoming scarce. The
prairie dogs have been killed By millions,
because they destroy the farms, and
therefore they must go. The superinten-
dent related an instance that came under
his own observation last fall,
in which two beavers were c2ught in
steel traps placed deep under water on
a low-protected territory, in which
the female had previously lost her two
fore psTs, aud the male had lost one Of
his, showing that they had been trapped
before and got away, the female twice
and the male once. The wild b. Hsts Of
Africa were formerly numerous, but they
ere becoming scarce. A few years ago
there was two ports In Africa where they
could be purchased, one in the east and
one in the west, on the Somal coast, but
the changed political conditions Of the
countries in the Upper Nile region now
prevent their purchase in the east.
In Asia the elephants, owing to their
slaughter by the ivory hunters, hkve al
most died out, and now laws are IN
forced in the countries which they in
habit which prevent their further de-
g. uction. The advance Of man has
driven the lions, tigers, leopards and
other ferOcious beasts into the juDgleb
which man cannot enter.
Mr.. Brown, in Illustration of the sub
] CT, said that less than five years ago he
could have bought CRATES and camel
eOpards for $4,000 q head. To day there
are but few on sale, and the price is
$4,000. About the time of thu Centen-
nial in 1876 six girafes We're bought and
landed ct the Zoo. Most of them have
since died, although carefully handled.
TWO poiar bears died last summer and
fsll there.
rhe Oldest and largest Zoo in the world
is that in London. OF the various speci 6
of animals there only about one-third
breed at all in captivity. The two baby
elephants which belonged to Bsrnum are
the only two on record that have been
born in captivity in two thousand years
Antwerp's 100 during the past few years
has been the most successful in breeding |
Sud raising animals.
Whist is true OF qusdrupeds is stated to |
be the fact with most wild birds, more |
sea birds, which are becom-
ing comparatively scarce to what they
we're st one time.