The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-02

them-One real young One-and
they are real Monaghan birds sent
to our little zoo by Mr. Daniel G.
Reid of New York, who used to live
In this city, and remembered how
popular all the birds and animals
that live at the Glen have always
been. The lttlest one insists on
hiding himself most of the time,
but the other three wander around
in their little apartment house
that is next door to the tiny apart
ment house 0 fbashful Polly. The
one who does the most strutting
of them all is beauty, in fact, so
beautiful. that it seems the most
natural thing in the world, that he
should know how beautiful he is,
too. His body is covered with
beautiful white feathers, which are
marked with black, all except the
long tail feathers, which are all
white. To this striking beauty, he
adds bright red "eye-pieces," and
darker red legs.
One Meal of Meat to Wild Ones.
The animals that, when free, are
the widest, are fed one meal day,
and that consists entirely of meat.
These animals are the eagles, the
coyotes or praire wolves, the owls,
and the cunning, curious little red
foxes. The eagles are old, now,
and not inclined to be very sociable
but they are patriotic. as an eagle
ought to be in the United States, as
we regard the eagle as a symbol of
our own splendid country, and the
way he shows his patriotism in
these times is by accepting fish for
his meal, instead of always de-
handing meat. The coyotes are
active animals, and you feel sorry
they are in captivity-thcy seem
so anxious to be free and to run
over great miles of woodland at
will. The youngest ones were
three years old last April Wichita
the yellow Kansas coyote has left
behind him all but the memories of
his youth, and is enjoying calm
Old age. He is twelve years old.
The four red foxes are cute as
puppies and look as if they would
make dandy pets. They are rather
shy, because they are young (only
five months old but this shyness
is usually overcome by their curios-
jty. They try not to miss seeing a
thing within view. They are play
full, and very intelligent looking.
The blinkety family of five that
occupies the apartment house next
to Squirrel Inn is pretty generally
unsocia bic, perhaps because they
are too busy keeping Their eyes GOV
cred up SO that no daylight will
reach them. Four of them are
monkey faced owls, and one is a |
horned owl. Mr.. Horned Owl seems |
to insist on showing his individual
ity by capturing the middle rail for
his special afternoon nap.
Bathing Is Enjoyed.
Some animals have more desire |
to keep themselves clean than
others, or, perhaps, their reason |
is, that they know that is one good
way to cool off. The eagles are
great bathers, and the elks (by the
way. there is little elk, now, just
born in May and our hairy, old
time friends, Nellie, Rexall and Rex
the bears like to battle in their
little pools, too. Rex. especially,
stays near the pool; in fact, he
sometimes sits by the side of the
pool, drops his fore paws in, and
then seriously sets himself to the
business OF cleaning up, which is
mostly done with his big, rod tom
que These three bears eat five
loaves of bread twice day, and
candy, or anything sweet, when
ever they can get it. They es-
pecially appreciate all the generous
friends, who send goodies flying
down to them through the top of
their wire home.
The "Snoozy" Animals
Some of the animals at the Glen
you will almost always find asleep,
perhaps because they have never
heard of anything more interesting
to do in this old world than sleep.
They are so fond of sleeping, that
they remind us of the story we
have heard of Rosctti, who though
he was good composer of opera