Evening star., 1924-08-03
zoo FOLK GR0WL
At WEATHER MAN
Irregular and Unreasonable
Temperature Provokes Ex-
pressions of Bad Temper.
RAVE IN THE HUMAN WAY
Present Conditions Regarded More
Favorable by Natives of the
Hot" Zones.
RAVE IN THE HUMAN WAY

The weather man has just as much
trouble trying to please the animals
az the Zoo as he does human beings.
Last winter the Very mention or
the weather man brought groWls
from the lion pen. Snarls from the
lizard box. Kisses from the snake cage
and various other expressions of
anger from The tropical animals, wfO
revel in the hottest of suns. On lie
other hand and at the same tn.
the weather man would have found
a pleasant wei, ONE await;ng him at
the polar bears den, in The sea lions
pool and at the wolves kennels.
Grateful for Sunshine.
Now that ;he warm sunshine of
Summer is upon US, owe er, the
forecaster W IL find a chang of art
among both IA. lions AZ n& L"o. 1 Mt
had the nerve ht prohahiy lou - pat
the lions on th.iT n"aus and near
soft purrS OF admiration IN response.
or go amonS jnt snakes ana lizards
and feel them crawl over him in
friendly manit-s alton of apprecia-
ton.
But the weather man had better
stay away from the polar bears,
Very bad frame Of mind just now,
with the perSpiration pouring from
fur and hide and the sun baking
down on their fat:ed bodies. nice
morsel of proEnostirator would be
soothing tid-bit TO the nerve shat
tered. insomnia-Stricken beasts of the
far North right at present
Hot for Nr. and Mrs. Polar Bear.
About the only relief from the heat
nowadays is "A dip in :he lukewarm
waters Of the pool i'll heir cage. fol-
lowed by a nap in ;ae shadows OF
their rocky cave. .,rother Brown
Bear and sister Grizzly and the
katzenjammer cubs are little better
off Brownie of la is not so dis
posed to rear himself on his hind legs
and reach for peanuts. Nor does
Sister Grizzly seem to Set as much
enjoyment as formerly out of that
fine fur coat she Sported 50 proudly
a few months back.
The cubs. of course, still insist on
being cubs, but they tire very easily
of romping and get into good many
more arguments with each other than
they did last Winter. They have
found that it's pretty hot work roll
ing around on the sun kissed con-
crete of their inclosure and their
usual good nature has suffered mate
rally result.
In the monkey house. however. the
warm weather seems to have Spurred
the inmates on to perform eXtraordl-
nary monkey-Shines. Home in the
jungles was no more desirable than
the simian building during August,
and visitors are getting daily an un-
usually amusing vaudeville show,
especially in front Of the spider
monkeys cage These little rascal Is
are having the time of THEN lives just
now pulling one anothers tails. play
ing hop, skip and jump and generally
deporting themselves as though they
had not a worry in the world
AmazOnian is Indifferent.
doesn't seem to worry about any
weather extremes. That is the
strange newcomer, the Whatist re-
Gently captured in the Amazonian
forests of South America. Having a
dogs body. his first inclination or
succumbing to that dog-day feeling
is overcome when he recollects that
he has some perfectly good web feet
with which to caVorI in the water
and refresh himself.
Following which he may give vent
to his feeling Of exhilaration by sit
ting on his launches. lifting his ant
eaterlike head Skyward and startling
the feathered flock in the birdhouse
with his anary-voiced "tWeet, tweet.