Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-08-20
CIRCUS HAS COMPLETE ZOO.
Wonderful Menagerie Now Found
With BaTnum and Bailey Show.

one or the Things Jnat mas addeu
greatly to the fame of the Barnum
and Bailey circus is it's menagerle.
The management has always held
that in building up and maintaining
really great menagerie it was do
ing untold good to the youth of the
land as we'll as entertaining them.
It is good thing for all boys and
girls to read natural history. How
much more beneficial it is to bring
these animals before the eyes of the
student where he may study them a.
close range.
The Barnum and Bailey circus IS
the only one in the world that has
it's own animal hunters and trap
pers. The various animal agencies
distributed throughout Europe deal
only in those animals which are
common to the ZOOS of every city of
size. Rare creatures which do not
breed in captivity are not found
there Here lies the reason why
other shows, with neither a hunter
nor a trapper in their employ, have
nothing year after year to show
their patrons but the common lions,
tigers, a sprinkling of deer and
bears, a few elephants and various
other unimportant types which from
long being seen are scarcely of more
interest than a goat or an OK.
In the Barnum and Bailey menag-
erie are 40 cages, dens, tanks and
pens in which are to be found 1900
animals. An instance of their great
enterprise is found in the giraffe
family. Here are five perfect speci-
mems. One is 22 feet in height
Another is only three feet tall, for
it is the baby of the family, and in
cidentally the only giraffe baby that
was ever seen in America. 1t is
worth its weight in gold.
Various other displays are five
ton hippopotamus, double-horned
rhinoceros, bears from the Arctic
regions and from a dozen other eli
mates, wild boars from the German
black forest kangaroos from Aus
tralia, horned horses from Africa,
40 elephants, 80 camels and drome-
daries, herds of llamas and yaks,
zebus, curious cattle, water buffalo,
nylghaus, ibexes, gnus, vlak vaarks,
hyenas, porcupines, tapirs, ant-eat-
ers, .ostriches, emues, chimpanzees,
orang-outangs, caribous, sealions
seals, peccaries, wart hogs and all
varieties of the cat, monkey and
deer tribes.
There are surprises in this menag-
erie, even to the naturalist, for there
are specimens, found elsewhere only
in the tropical thickets far from the
haunts of man. Much interesting
knowledge may be picked up here.
The attendants are used to being
questioned and they are all practical
animal men. For instance, one may
learn that the giraffe has no vocal
organs and can utter no sound 1t
food and water. The elephant does
not smell with its trunk. Far back
in the roof of its mouth are two
holes. These are it's smelling ap
paratus. An elephant has to put its
food into it's mouth to test it. There
are two feathers on every quill in
the emu's back. The vlak vaark has
warts on it's nose when times are
plentiful. When hard times come
the warts disappear. The hippota-
mus exudes blood from its pores
when angry. The male ostrich sits
on the eggs during the day time.
When the circus comes to Salem
on Saturday, August 27, full hour
will be devoted to the menagerie af-
ter the doors are open.