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

but that certain amount is made ready Tor them perl
Odcay at certain place, they give up their foragig
habit and nope listessly about the favored spot losing
the exercise that formerly kept them IN good condition.
and dropping by degrees till they become too weak to
resist any aent to which they happen to be exposed
Quite serious peril as shock IS fright. Deer,
rule, cannot endure having dogs anywhere about them
when they protected from attack by the bars
or network OF strong cage This popularity has led
superintendent to issue broad prohibition OF the
admittance of dogs to their parks Two deer in the
Washington not long ago broke their necks by
hurting themselves against fence at the sight of dog
in the distance What such hysterical an
tpathies has never been positively determined; but
it thought that deer born captivity, though it
may never have seen live wolf, inherits with blood
much of the ancestral dread of everything of the wolf
kindred that of terror responds to the merest
sniff of the canine odor The Of smell in animals
is equivalent in intensity to the sum of several of
sophisticated human senses; and the force of assoca
ton with certain scents, as found among the lower
orders, is beyond any parallel in human experience.
WHATEVER risks wild animals may the
" suit of capture, majority of them pick up after
the first depression and do well. 1t is not uncommon
to find them adapting themselves to their changed
ditions that they sport in the paddocks and when
released, either purposely by accident back
hcarly fond of freedom, perhaps prone than
any other animals of their class to acquire liking for
captivity.
One deer in the Washington ZOO jumped the fence of
its paddock and disappeared 1t roamed at large for
two days, and from telephone inquiries received from
the suburbs where it had been noticed wandering aim
leSsly about it must have covered several square miles
of territory When it had tired of its play spell it
appeared at the and approached its old quarters.
The keepers watched its movements; but did nothing
to urge its return. After brief period of hestancy,
during which it seemed to cogtate the pros and
of the situation it apparently concluded that the food
within the Enclosure superior to that without and
jumped the same fence back again.
Wire fences, by the way, the kind most commonly
used in where they at all suitable. They puz
ze the animals inside deer that would not be at all
embarrassed at jumping ten-foot wall is unable to
wire fence several feet lower. This undoubt
edly is because, when it walks toward such fence it
objects the other side distinctly that it
realize that there any barrier in the way but when it
reaches the fence it finds its passage blocked by inn
perceptible obstruction Its reasoning powers not
equal to the solution of such mystery it retires
defeated and remains quescent till tempted by some
attraction to make another attempt of with the
result.
THIS brings logically to that perennial issue be-
tween naturaists and r-naturalists regarding
the intelligence of the brute world Scarcely any two
will agree to how far animals equipped with any
faculties higher than sensation and memory; but all
admit there among them differences of disposition
as marked the corresponding differences between
human beings, and that these respond quite notably
to differences of treatment.
circus travelling through rural West Virginia
eal years ago had its menagere increased day by
baby lion. For the managers did not
to carry it along they presented it to woman in
the neghborhood who thought she would like to bring