The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-03
THE CAPTIVE BEASTS
Maternal Love and Watchfulness
Seen in a Menagerie.
BEASTS THAT EAT THEIR YOUNG.
Lioness that is a Typical MOther-Ani-
mails Born Captive Useless for
Exhibition Purposes.


The conduct and methods of the man.
mails in their maternal capacity, as eX-
hibited in a circus menagerie, might be
studied with profit by American matrons.
According to the testimony of Superintend-
emit Conklin of Barnum's circus every ami
NAL, if 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
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 hyena is seldom caught,
although the male is a very ordinary in
habitant of menageries The males of
some other kinds of animals are never
caught.
PERFECT MOTHER.
As an example of a perfect mother NAV
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.
She fed them regularly and took every
possible care Of them, but, most remarka-
bic 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 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 Goness in excellent physi-
cal condition. She has a 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 honess 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
he left alone with their young. If they are
not separated from the other animals, in
Guiding males of their own species, they
veil probably kill the young ones Not
long ago a leopard ate up her three cubs
simply because she was stared at so much.
anu 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 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, gil
raffes one, nylghaus two and antelopes
one
Monkeys do not breed much in the cap
tivity of 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
menagerie monkey is pampered and kept
in a warm cage, so that a shower of rain
or draught of air will kill him The white
e Chinese monkey possesses the strongest
e constitution of any simian. He is big
fellow, with an arm like blacksmith's
and apt to be quarrelsome. The mandrill
who is distinguished by blue cheeks and
o a red nose, is affectionate and very deli
IT cate.
AN ELEPHANT STORY.
l, The mother elephant bestows the greatest
d care and affection on her offspring. This
fact is illustrated by the following story:
A gentleman well known in this city
paid visit, when 10 years old, to circus
in Brooklyn.
An elephant and her young one were the
center of attraction for crowds of Brooklyn
small boys. The young elephant had moi
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 hat a.
Y, cheerfully as bundle of hay On this ac
count his mother took all the articles which
were handed to him, examined them TO
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
HSrSeii, anu ii UHey were nOG SOOu dU al
=, she returned them to the generous giver
Several youths found amusement il
handing in their caps, which were returned
,e as no good, because they were made o
lie cloth. The youth of whom we speak wa
never lacking in enterprise, and he, toe
passed in his hat. 1t was promptly eatel
by the mother elephant. 1t was a larg
new straw one The sufferer compliance
10 very loudly to the manager of the Circus
but was unable to regain his property.
, Animals born and raised in confinement
-, are usually as strong and healthy as thei
relatives from the wilderness. But, strang
to say, they are much less easily tanned
in Familiarity with man has bred contempt
III Such animals are not always savage, btI
they calmly decline to make an exhibitio
i'd of themselves by doing ridiculous trick:
Trainers say that for their purposes an
mails born in confinement are useless
New York Evening Sun.
Why he Bought the Pies.
At the close of a fair in Boston the III