The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-09
WILD ANIMALS WHEN ASLEEP.
4 STUDY or THE ZOOLOGICAL.
PARK ~ NIGHT.

Lemur Msther-Open.Eyed Fishes.
And now" said the Waterman OF the
Geological Park after he had let out the
last belated visitors. a tired mother and her
two children. whose eyee we're still big
with wonder. "it's time for the animals
to 60 TO sleep"
1t was only p. NJ. Of All autumn day
that had been filled with Sunshine and
braoing GOODNESS
80 early'" commented the visitor.
Come with me. ne said in reply.
The two men walked past deer ranges.
where sott-eyed creatures la2ily munched
the remnants OF their dinners past dens for
wolves and foxes, where the former were
pacing back and forth and snarling at one
another; past ponds for ducks. for otters
and beavers. to the dens OF the bears.
blasted out of The side of rocky ledge.
There they stopped and the Waterman
pointed to big black hulk being swallowed
up by the rapidly falling darkness, II was
just light enough to make out that that
animals feet were tucked under bumped
body and that it's dropping head was trying
hard to emulate the paws
Hes been snoring like a steam engine
since o'clock" said the guide. and he
won't wake up till morning. He's early
to bed and late TO rise. When the wolves
howl. a. they do several times light =,
he's the only fellow in the whole Zoo who
isn't disturbed. He just keeps on snoring
and snoring, does this Kadak bear from
Alaska
For ten minutes the kadiak heaved his
shaggy sides in s!umber that would have
made the sluggard that Solomon wrote
proverbs about green with envy. Then a
hunan-like thing happened
little black b>ar. which was given 20
the Zoo by President Roosevelt and
had been disturbed in his efforts 70 rest ,
waddled over TO his sno ring den-mate
aud gave him vicious swat with a paw.
The sleeping bear snored on
Once again the little black bear struck
the sleeper, The snoring continued. The
little fellow waited moment then backed
away, and rushing at the Kadiak. landed
on him with all fours.
The curled-up mass trembled but kept
on snoring. The Presidents bear de.
jectedly walked away and his disguised
attitude said az plainly as words:
'Drat old Kadiak! I cant go 10 sleep
while he snores like that =
An hour later all but two OF the twenty
odd bears wer sound in slumber. The
hairy-eared bear from Asia dreamed as he
squatted on his launches and propped
himself on his paws.
The four crotches of the dead tree were
occupied by AZ many black bears cured
up into balls. Cinnamon. brown and
grizzly were scattered over the rocky
of hAr lal -. L.
or sleeping on their bellies with heads
between paws.
The two Polar bears had Aa,,ened them
selves like pancakes on a clir over which
the chilly night air swept freely. and, judg-
ing by the contented signs they emitted
every little while, they seemed to be RELISH
ing the frosty breezes that ruffled up their
white coats But the little black bear
that Mr., Roosevelt captured out West still
paced his cage and glared angrily and
helplessly al the snoring Kadiak
The OF her wide-awake was big grizzly.
Squatted before his den's gate he per-
sistently endeavored 70 pick the lock
Half an hour later he desisted in his vain
efforts and soon was sound asleep in front
Of the gate: but one paw still reached up
toward the lock.
Not a sound came from the primates'
house until a door creaked as il was opened
Then every living thing scampered about
and chat cred,
Tie hay in the cages rusted, the sides
OF the cages ratified as the monkeys swung
up and down and the shelves and perches
squeaked under the burden Of disturbed
animals. Pretty 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 a limb Of a tree
and his tail, four times the length Of his
body. stuck straight up in the air. The
rhes,ls monkeys. lying on their bellies and
with their hands under their chns, reminded
ono Of the way human babies frequently
sleep.
A big black ape was bumped up on the
floor and with his head leaning against
the cages side, snored away like a ma ior
The drills and mandrills from West Africa
sat up like toy soldiers. and an Arabian
baboon, perchcd above them on his
launches. let his long tail swing down into
| the faces of its smaller cage mates.
A chmpanzee and an orang -outang, Joint
occupants Of cage. had buried them
| selves IN BLANKETS. W neneNeT tiWlT -tl'lTnl-
ings uncovered them, hairy hands would
shoot out and grab the coverings and, with
the readiness OF human fingers, pull the
blankets over the owners heads.
In the lemurs' cage mother instinct was
! interestingly manifested. A mother. back
up, had sprawled on the floor. Stretched
| across her lay her hslf-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 he :
meath the tail next to it.
The mothers body KEEP, the chill of the
| tin away from her precious babies. whose
| own tails and the temperature Of the house
rs degrees gave sufficient warmth for
their heads and backs
In the lion house the king of all beast :
were found sleeping like dogs, either on
their sides, with feet held straight out
or on their bellies. with heads resting
between their paws. Two Of the three.
tigers had rolled over on their backs and
their feet pointed toward the cages roof
while their tongues hung from their partly
opened jaws.
The puma. curlcd up like cat. had the
| back Of his head on the floor and seemed
to enjoy sleeping with a twisted neck.
A Samaritan rhnocerous whose dis
| tinpuishing features, beside his general