The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-12
Wild ANIMALS ASLEEP.
4 STUDY OF 4 GEOLOGICAL
PARK BY NIGHL.

ChImpauzee Pulls the blanket OyoI
HIS mead-.The Uneasy WOIves-The
Kind Lemur Mother-OpeB-Eysd
Fishes.
And now,' said the Waterman of
the Geological. Park after he had let out
the last belated visitor. tired mother
and her two children. whose eyes were
still big with wonder, its time for the
animals to go to sleep"
1t was only 6 p. m. Of an autumn day
that had been filed with sunshine and
bracing GOODNESS.
SO early?" commented the visitor.
Come with me- he said in reply.
The two men walked past deer
ranges, where soft-eyed creatures
lazily munched the remnants of their
dinners; past dens for wolves and
foxes. where the former We're pacing
back and forth and snarling at one an
other; past ponds for ducks, for offers
and beavers, to the dens of the bears,
blasted out of the side of rocky ledge.
There they stopped and the watch
man pointed to big black hulk being
swallowed up by the rapidly falling
darkness. 1t was just light enough to
make out that that animals feet were
tucked under bumped body and that
its dropping head was trying hard to
emulate the paws.
He's been snoring like steam en-
CINE since 5 O'clock" said the guide,
land he won't wake up till morning.
He's early to bed and late to rise.
When the wolves howl as they do sew
eral times a night, he's the only fell
low in the whole Zoo who isn't dis
turbed He just keeps on snoring and
snoring, does this Kadiak bear from
Alaska
For ten minutes the Kadiak heaved
his shaggy sides in slumber that would
have made the sluggard that Solomon
wrote proverbs about green with envy.
Then human-like thing happened,
A little black bear, which was given
to the Zoo by President Roosevelt, and
had been disturbed in his efforts to
rest, waddled over to his snoring dem
mate and gave him vicious swat with
paw. The sleeping bear snored on.
Once again the little black bear
struck the sleeper. The snoring con-
tinued. The little fellow waited mo-
ment then backed away, and rushing
at the Kadiak, landed on him with all
| tours.
! The curled-up mass trembled, but
kept on snoring. The presidents bear
| dejectedly walked away and his dis
gusted attitude said as plainly as
| words:
"Drat old Kadiak! I can't go to
sleep while he SHORES like that"
An hour later all but two of the
twenty odd bears were sound in slum-
Der. The hairy-eared bear from Asia
dreamed as he squatted on his haunch-
es and propped himself on his paws.
| The four crotches of the dead tree
were occupied by'as many black bears
curled up into balls. Cinnamon, brown
and grizzly weref. scattered over the
rocky floors, either rolled over on their
sides or sleeping on thei bellies, with
| heads between paws.
The two Polar bears had flattened
themselves like pancakes on cliff over
which the chilly night air swept freely.
and, judging by the contented signs
they emitted evry little while, they
seemed to be relishing the frosty
breezes that ruffied up their white COATS
But the little black bear that Mr..
Roosevelt captured out west still paced
his cage and glared angrily and help
lessly at the snoring Kadiak.
The other wide-awake was big griz-
ely. Squatted before his den gate he
persistentIy endeavored to pick the
lock. Half an hour later he desisted In
| his vain efforts and soon was found
asleep in front of the gate: but one
paw still reached up toward the lock.
| Not a sound came from the primates'
'house until door creaked as it was
opened Then every living thing scamp
cred about and chartered.
| The hay in the cage rustled. the
sides of the cages ratified as the mon
keys swung up and down and the
shelves and perches squeaked under
! the burden of disturbed animals. Pref
tv soon all were settled once more and
| the monkeys We're seen as they slept.
The little squirrel monkey from
South America was perched on limb
of tree and his tail. four times the
length of his body, stuck straight UP
in the air. The rhnsus monkeys. lying
on their bellies and with their hands
| under their chins reminded one Of the
way human babies frequently sleep.
A big black ape was bumped UP or
the floor and. with his head leaning
against the cages side. snored away
like a major. The drills and mandrills
from West Africa sat up like toy sol
diers, and an Arabian baboon, perched
| above them on his launches, let bis
long tail swing down into the faces Of
| it's smaller cage-mates
| A chimpanzee and an orang-outang,
| joint occupants of a cage, had buried
| themselves in blankets. Whenever
| their squirmings uncovered them, hairy
hands would shoot out and grab the
coverings and, with the readiness of
human fingers, pail the blankets over
| the owners heads.
| In the lemurs' cage mother instinct
was interestingly manifested. A moth
er, back up, had spraWled on the floor.
| Stretched across her lay her half dozen
children, three with heads on one side,
the other three with tails on the same
side, and heads and tails alternating,
each head being hidden beneath the
| tail next to it.
The mothers body kept the chill of
the tin away from her precious babies,
| whose own tails and the temperature