Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-26

in his arms just like child, give it its
milk and its pap. and sing lullahies to hush
it to sleep. 1t grew quite fond of him. and
| as soon as it could walk it used to follow
| him about the place like a dog.
The Milk Question is Serious.
THE question of the milk is always a
serious one. 1t Is extremely difficult to get
a fluid resembling the mothers milk Mis-
takes are often made and we have to learn
by experience.
I'VE used condensed milk mixed in boiled
water for baby monkeys. Its hygienic quail
| ties are superior to those of cows milk and
| it is less likely to cause distemper, dysentery
| and other complaints to which monkey
! flesh is heir to. Into quart of this milk
we squeeze the juice of two bananas
| through cheesecloth. and also some or
ange juice Small monkeys. such as ring
| tails and marmosets. are fed from the bot
tie just like human babies; but the larger
monkeys are taught to drink out of a cup
from infancy. They are stronger than hui
man babies. and can lift the cup when they
are very young.
Sometimes baby monkeys cannot be in
duced to take any nourishment from the
keepers hands. In hat case the skin OF
an animal some hairy cloth is laid upon
the floor of the cage with several bottles
OF milk under 1t. Holes are cut in the
cloth, through which the nipples of the
| bottles protrude. The monkey is then left
| alone, and, sooner or later, ne Will take all
| the milk he needs.
| Mountain sheep" the keeper went on,
ARE raised on ordinary cows milk, which
| has been stepped in grass. Bear cubs are
| fed upon milk and ZWeiback. great
! many of these cubs are caught in Germany,
| when their eyes are hardly open, by shoot
| ing their parents; and zweiback Is re-
! garded as being the best food for them.
| Wolf cubs are also fed on it sometimes
| but they get beef tea as well as milk.
| Juvenile snakes easily provided for
| All you have to do is to crush up grass
hoppers small enough for them to swal-
| low. Lion cubs are raised, by the bottle
| on milk and beef tea.
! Baby antelopes, wolves, foxes and many
other animals have been successfully
| raised on the bottle by keepers. Some
time ago a baby hippopotamus had to be
| dry-nursed at the Central Park Zoo in
| New York. 1t was found that cows milk
| mixed with the juice of crushed grass was
| the nearest approach to the milk of the
| mother Central Park Zoo is famous the
| world ~over for its success in raising baby
| hippos. The hippopotamus very rarely
| breeds in captivity, and practically all
| those which have been produced in re-
! cent years have come from Central Park
! They are traded off to zoos in various parts
| of the world in exchange for other ami
| mails.
The Too-Fond Mothers.
| .You talk as If you often had to dry
| nurse these babies. Do the mothers die so
frequently" the keeper who had given all
I this information was asked.
| NO but we often have to take the babies
/ away from their Mothers he replied.
| GAS l said, we always leave them when
| we can; but sometimes the mothers do
| their best to kill their babies through over
| kindness. and sometimes-though much
! more rarely-through neglect.
Last winter a grizzly bear cub died
| through exposure to the cold. Its mother
| went to her den and slept, leaving the
| poor little thing outside 1t had only just
| been born, and didn't know enough to get
out of the cold. We found it badly FROST
bitten, and applied all kinds of restoratives,
but 1t died.
THAT was an unusual case. Overfond-
ness Is more common. lioness will be
! so proud of her cubs that she will carry