Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-31

dollars The two-horn rhino equally hard to capture
but by means SO rare, and they bring four thou
sand five hundred dollars in fine condition "A giraffe
commands from two thousand five hundred to three
thousand dollars while pretty good elephant be
got for thousand five hundred dollars.
A FTER paying handsome price for an animal, the
next thing is to take of it so that it will last
The most difficult animals to keep in captivity the
prong horned antelope, the Rocky Mountain goat and
sheep, the foreign reindeer and the caribou The dl
Guilty proceeds from several Of park
anywhere in civilization afford the space which
such animals accustomed to in their native
wilderness. The Rocky Mountain sheep and goats for
example, have the cold, attitudes where they can
spend part Of their time, and the Deep warm valleys
to which they resort at others.
The moose not only ranges widely, but spends most
of its time in the woods and beside lakes where sub
ssts on the tender twigs and branches various trees
and the lily roots it pulls up from the waters edge
Its paddock in the necessarily limited in and
unless it is shifted from place to place with fire.
quency its browse is soon exhausted while the trees
devoted to its ruined; and IT'S appetite for
roots is voracious its custodians would be able
under practical conditions to keep it supplied:
All the animals mentioned in this group suffer from
inability to get the right kind of food in captivity
There to be popularity in the rough buffalo
grass which dierentiates it from any Eastern grass in
its effect the lining of the digestive organs true
also of the browse of the and the that alone
satisfies the reindeer. Nevertheless have the record
of mule deer that will have turned thirteen years
captivity if it lives till fall and of caribou that has
survived nine years and ten months. The best, be-
leve that has been done with two years and
five months, and with Rocky Mountain sheep two
and seven months.
THE most prevalent physical disorder among ami.
mails tuberculosis and the fact that it has proved
also the refractory doing its deadly work freely
among out-of-door animals as among those Gagged in
DOORS to initiate against the theory that living
continually in the open air insurance against the
scourge The affected animals cough, quickly
veying the disease to any Others that may feed with
them but what battles the keepers in their fight
against the pestlence is the liability of animal to
become infected and pernicous spreader of disease,
before anyone suspects that it is victim. When dis
covered the damage is often beyond repair.
The animals most subject to tuberculosis those
brought from tropical countries, especially monkeys.
This is surprising when observes how their cap
tors conne them till sold, giving them very close quar-
ters and not infrequenty in cages and buildings that
have previously been infected. 1t has passed into
proverb among superintendent that hardly
monkey brought to them in sound condition. To pre-
vent the spread of infection have established
regular quarantine stations, where every animal,
its arrival is kept segregated long enough for disease
to manifest itself if present.
Among the indirect of decline and death may
be counted the shock animals suffer from
the mere circumstance of capture. The symptoms of
this shock often mistaken for home Sickness when
there is to suppose that change of
vironment and association is to blame Occasionally
animals that not subject to shock slow to
accustom themselves to their mode of life and
when they find that they do not have to hunt their food