Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-27
BEASTS IN CAPTIVITY.
MATERNAL LOVE AND WATcHFuL-
NESS SEEN IN A MENAGERlE.

LiOness That Is Typical Mother.
Beasts That Eat Their YOung-Animals
Born Captives Are Useless for Exhibi-
tion Purposes.
The conduct and methods of the nam
mails in their maternal capacity, as ex-
hibited in circus menagerie, might be
studied with profit by American matrons.
According to the testimony of Superintend
ent Conklin of Barnum's circus every ami
NAL, IL properly fed and kept free from
noisy intrusion and worry, will rear its
young with unvarying care and affection,
and further he believes that animals of
every species which has ever survived in
Il state of captivity will breed. and he offers
the best possible justification of this belief
by saying that he has never during an ex-
perience of thirty years had charge OF ami
mails which did not breed OF course, he
does not mean that e<ory individual female
has had young Ones for many individuals
are barren. In the case Of some species,
however, the animals Of one sex are never
caught, and consequently young ones are
not born among these An example of
such animals is the laughing and crying
hyena. The female hyena is seldom caught,
although the male is n very ordinary in
habitant Of menageries. The males OF
some other kinds of animals are never
caught.
A PERFECT MOTHER.
As an example of a perfect mother may
be taken the 3-year-old lioness Belle in Bar
NUNS circus. Rather more than a year
ago she had two whelps, fine fat fellows.
ha fa1 urlu nd
possible care of them, but, most remarka-
BILE to state she not only allowed anybody
to look ut the cubs, but let the keepers
take them out of the cage for half an hour
at time. She neither resented this nor
relaxed her care for the little ones. With
many animals such liberties would have
ended in the killing or abandonment of
the cubs
Belle is II large lioness in excellent physi-
cal condition. She has powerful and ex-
pressive countenance. The cubs are stolid
looking fellows, with not half AS much in
telligence as their mother They are not
savage, but have no particular respect for
the keepers or the public.
The lioness weans her cubs when they
are nine months old. Before they attain
that age she takes all meat and solid food
away from them, although at times they
would very much like to have some. At
the end of nine months she selects the ten
derest pieces of meat to give to them. Soon
after that they are taken from their mother
and placed in residences of their own.
IRREGULARITIES OF BREEDING.
Tigers, leopards and other felines must
be left alone with their young If they are
not separated from the other animals in
GLIDING males of their own species, they
will probably kill the young ones. Not
long ago n leopard ate up her three cubs
simply because she was stared at SO much,
and did not want her offspring to grow up
to live life like hers.
In case it is not possible, on account of
bad temper, death or illness, for the mother
to suckle them, young lions, tigers, leopards
and wolves are given to Newfoundland or
st. Bernard dogs to suckle They only re-
main with the dogs four or five weeks AT
ter that there might be danger that they
would gobble up their foster mothers.
Animals reared in this way are not so
healthy rs those sucked by their own
mothers. They are art to have the ricketts,.
Lions and tigers have three or four young
ones at II time the leopard five, bears three
or four, monkeys one, elephants one, gi-
RATES. one, nylghaus two and antelOpes
one
Monkeys do not breed much in the cap
tivity of n menagerie, because they are al
ways dying. The monkey who goes around
with his Italian master in all weather gets
as hardy as it is possible to be- But the
menagcrie monkey is pampeTed and kept
in u warm cage, so that Il shower Of rain
or u draught of mir will kill him. The white
Chinese monkey possesses the strongest
constitution of any simian. He is big
fellow, with IN arm like blacksmith's
and npt to he quarrclsome. The mandrilI
who il distinguished by blue cheeks and
red nose, is ntfcctonute and very deli
cate
AN ELEPHANT STORY.
The mother elephant bestows the greatest
care and affection on her offspring. This
fact IL illustrated by the following story:
A gentleman we'll known in this city
paid n visit when 10 years old. to n circu.
in Brooklyn.
An elephant and her young one were thu
center of attraction for crowds of Brooklyn
small boys The young elephant had no
attained by the course of years that dis
cretion which would enable him to decid
what was within his powers of digestion
and he would have swallowed u hat a
cheerfully ms bundle of hay. On this nc
count his mother took all the articles whicl
were handed to him, examined them 70
an instant and then, if they were quit
good to eat, she gave them to him; If the
were only moderately good she ate then
herself, and If they were not good mt al
she returned them to the generous giver.
Several youths found amusement ii
handing in their caps, which were returne
as no good, because they were made q
cloth. The youth of whom we speak wa
never lacking in enterprise, and he, toe
passed in his hat, 1t was promptly cate
by the mother elephant. 1t was larg
new straw one. The sufferer complaine,
very loudly to the manager of the circus
but was unable to regain his property
Animals born and raised in confinement
are usually us strong and healthy AS thei
relatives from the wilderness. Bnt, strang
10 say. they are much less easily tanned
Familiarity with man has bred contemp
Such animals are not always savage, bu
they calmly decline to make an eXhibitio
of themselves by doing ridiculous trick
Trainers say that for their purposes an
mails born in confinement are useless
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