The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-15
FOXES" EATEN BY THE FILIPINoS
queer variety at Lincoln Park Which
Look Like Bats aud Can Fly.


1t is a long time since the Lincoln
park zoo has had an attraction so mag
netlc In drawing visitors as the pair of
| ilylnS foxes, or ilN bats, just received
and installed in K,s-'er De Vry's do
| main. A close second in novelty ana
popularity is the ant-eatA", or taman-
! Qua. These animals were received from
the south a few days ago. Crowds of
| people throng the animal house daily
ana watch these curious creatures pr
form in the wire cages near the west
| entrance.
Just as the flying foxes are seen ii
their cage, hanging head downward, so
they are accustomtl to spend the gay
in their native countries. They abound
in the Philippine islands, as we'll as in
| other tropical regions of the eastern
hemisphere and in Australia. II is So Il
their flesh is highly esteemed by the
Malay insurgents whom Uncle Sans
soldiers are now fighting in the Philip
pines. They choose dead trees for their
roosts. With their wings gathered
about them, they hang from the trees
| in daytime, looking like clusters of fruit
or huge schriveled leaves The natives
| knock them from the trees like chest
nuts, carry them home in basketfulS
and cook them with an abundance of
spices, when, it is said, they ARE le-
ally very good eating, something like
| hare"
They are exclusively fruit eaters, and
| they do very great injury to cocoanut
plantations and mango gardens in their
native haunts. While their day is for
sleep their night is for forage. Their
| ha bits are very incorporate: they often
| pass the night drinking the toddy from
| the ChattleS in the cocoanut trees,
| which results either in their returning
| home in a state of extreme and riotous
| intoXication or in being found the next
| IN, nj no FOOT 49, l,n Gle inr
| the effects of their midnight debauch
The flying fox is the largest of the
| bat family, being a foot and half
! long in some instances. The eXpan3e
| of wing membrane measures nearly
| five feet across in some specimens, and
they are able to make astonishing leaps
| from tree to tree-springing sometimes
100 feet. The membrane extended acts
as a parachute.
The art-eater is not likely to win any
prize in a beauty show, yet it is not
overlooked by the crowds. During much
of the time it stays curled up in a COR
ner of it's cage. 1t is about the size of
a small cat but is the owner of mar
Vicious tail of singular prehensile pow
er. At its home. in tropical America,
with the aid of this wonderful tail. it
swings about from limb to limb in the
| forests. being a purely SYLVAN animal.
Its head is cylindrical, and it's most
useful organ is it's tongue, which I'M.
folds to a great length, like carpen-
ters rule. With this organ it ravages
ant hills, and also feeds on other in
sects, honey, and even bees when OPP
portunity offers.
More geological attractions are COM
mild enri,e xv,a thar a11,res neon1e cen
eral1v 10 the mari, The recant n,1rchasa
from Haeenhack Of Hamburg includes
two do1,hIe- hun,n cameIs nair Of Ans
tra1jan kanearoos two ostriches *
monkevs two 1bIac,, ,eonards ono fa.
male snotted leonard and nair Of
hlack swans T,hrv will ali he hare bv
moving t1av Mavi1
An America -hred zebra has been
purchased and 10 coming from perm
Ind Nrs William Manpler contrih,1ted
two vourg allioators fron, F1or;5a r.
the co1lection iast weel. ,rhe recant
n1rchase from the Cincinnati ZOO now
installnd embraces a lion a tiper .
na;r Of zahms val hlack fs1ion,
daar cola ana silver. nbaoson+s COLI
ducks hvbrid and Enp,ish ring nbeas-
ants An erthusiasti Visitor TO tho 700
,,astarda,, Voc h,,r, ,,inr thasa ,;nas of
iinela fron, onp If TharIserav,s cbarac.
taristic f,,n-naLins efforts.
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tha h,,ol,.
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