The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1890-07-18
BEASTS IN CAPTIVITY.
MATERNAL LOVE AND WATCHFUL-
NESS SEEN IN A MENAGERlE.

A Lioness That Is Il Typical Mother.
Beasts That Eat Their Young-Animals
born Captivcs Are Useless for Exhibl-
tIon Purposes.
The conduct and methods of the man.
mails in their maternal capacity, as c2-
hibited in circus menagerie, might be
studied with profit by American mntrons.
According to the testimony of fSuperintend-
ent Conklin of Barnum's circus every ami
NAL, II properly fed and kept free from
noisy intrusion and worry, will rear It's
young with unvarying care and affection,
and further he believes that animals of
every species which has ever survived in
q 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 every 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 hycna is seldom caught,
although the male is very ordinary in
habitant Of menageries. The males of
some other kinds of animals are never
caught.
"A PERFECT MOTHER
As an example Of II perfect mother may
be taken the 3-year-old lioness Belle il Bar
NUNS circus. Rather more than year
ago she had two whelps, fine fat fellows
She fed them regularly and took every
possible care of them, but most remarka-
BILE to state, she not only allowed anybody
TO look at the cubs, but let the keepers
take them out Of the cage for half an hour
at a 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 large lioness in excellent phys-
cal condition. She has a powerful and ex-
pressive countenancc. The cubs are stolid
looking fellows, with not half as much in
telligence us their mother They are not
savage. but have no particular respect for
the keepers or the public.
The loness wenns 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
Guiding males of their own species, they
will probably kill the young ones Not
long ago leopard ate up her three cubs
simply because she was stared at SO much
and did not want her offspring to grow up
to lives 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 i'll this way are not so
healthy as those sucked by their own
mothers. They are apt to have the ricketts,
Lions and tigers have three or four young
ones at time, the leopard five, bears three
or four, monkeys one, elephants one, gi-
raffes one, nylghaus two and antelopes
one.
Monkeys do not breed much In the cap
tivity of nenagerie, 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
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AN ELEPHANT STORY.
The motherclcDhunt hest oyys the greatest,
care and affect;nn m bnr offsnr;nS rh;s
fnct is illustrated by,,he followino story.
rontiemon ,yclt Lnn,vn In th;v cltv
mid n vis;t ,vhen 10 vcnrs old !, n circne
n Rroolrlvn
An clenbnnt and her vo,,n, one were tbe
center of attraction for crowds of Rrooklvn
small bovs The vouno elephant had not
attained hy tbc conrsn of rcara that dIs.