Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-06

davs They are wild little rascals like their mothers,
who guard them jealousy, from the gaze of the
public at first and who would fight for them to the
death with her long curved horns if need be.
One of the most precocious youngsters in zoo
nursery is the curly, white, wabbly Angora kid. who
at the age of three days sttnds loney" on the
top of many times his height and frisks his lit
tie tail about for the Joy of living and being
white kid
The little axis deer dainest baby of all, with
its slender little legs and polka dotted body When
born captivity it is very gentle and tame for year.
when the wild strain out. After three years
rebellion against the iron bars the little ones give it
up as bad job and settle down to eight or nine more
years of tameness.
baby buffalo doesn't stay baby long. He is
bulky calf with boiserous nature inherited from his
parents who at the age of four weeks eats alone
corn OATS hay and fresh carrots, and races around
and hides behind his mother whenever he sees
The elkets and the little fallow deer are gentle
and add greatly to the beauty of the landscape, but
are not so amusing as some others in a zoo nursery.
They very appealing, however, when they conc
scend to come enough to stick their little vel
noses into their nurses hands for corn and look nn
with big soft brown eyes, but If nearby stranger
so much as takes long breath off they scamper to
the other end of the run.
Infant hyenas look like puppies and equally
playful One born in captivity is tame when young,
following the keeper about like dog but on reach
ing maturity reveals the scayenger instinct. The
savage mother loves them much that upon the
slightest provocation indication of attack by any
other animal she gobbles them UP in jify-a ques-
tionabe mode of maternal protection.
In spite of the naughty indifference of his race a
baby camel is a most remarkably socabe youngster.
Within an hour after birth he is standing his
steady legs which long he is himself, nurs-
ing-looking upon the world about him through
bright, innocent little eyes, and much resembling
woolly clothes horse knock-kneed and loose way
down to his ankles which are about three feet away
from his little bumped body. One born on the road"
in a circus nursery was well named Fluffy
Ruffes.
The Tiniest of ALL
One of the rarest and most uncanny ZOO babies is
+be kangaroo 1t takes most observant and careful
keeper TO discover that there is at ALL for it Is
microscopic when born, being only inch from
nose to the tip of its little tall 1t is natur-
aIIv the most peculiarly feeble of all offspring In
appearance it resembles an earthworm in color and
transparency. For four five months it lives and
is nourshed in its mothers pouch before it gets its
hair and is seen of men.
Then its little brown head is seen peeping like
squirrel out of the protecting pouch All this time
its characteristic long legs are growing longer and
Longer Until by the time 1t into the world
alone it looks like the kangaroo picture in a school
geography.
and when the warm weather the head keeper
administers spring medicine regardless. Just what it
confined by civilization share many of human Ills
double up with cocs occasionally and suffer from
colds.
A most important department too in connection
with the zoo nursery is the kitchen The problem OF
catering the hardest and most important which
confronts keepers, it is difficult to find just
what will agree with each individual baby. Few
creatures are easily upset than wild ami
mals in captivity so it is by no means an easy task
keeper would rather have them kick about the food
than merely crawl off in and leave 1t alone
or die.
The kitchen is usually in the basement. Here a
hot fire burns good part of the time, while things
simmer in double boilers and bake in Brown
bread is baked for the bears and the little rolypoy
babies scramble for pieces of it big keepers
two fists.