FURRY ANIMALS 



Barro Colorado Island is a wonderfully fine 

 zoological garden. Safely penned in by Gatun 

 Lake, it keeps examples of most of the animals to 

 be found anywhere on the Isthmus of Panama, 

 all going about their business without the trouble 

 of any keepers to feed and care for them. It 

 must be said, however, that many of the animals, 

 although they are none the less interesting, are 

 so small that no zoo would bother to keep them. 

 In a big museum you might find a stuffed lizard 

 or perhaps a model of an ant 's nest, but when you 

 go to the zoo to see live animals you expect to 

 see for the most part some of the big furry animals 

 that we call mammals. 



For myself, I like best to study the insects, but 

 when I went to the jtmgle I wanted to see all the 

 other animals in the Barro Colorado zoo as well. 

 As it turned out, I saw and heard fewer mammals 

 than any other kind of animals, but my luck was 

 as good as most people's, and it began almost as 

 soon as I came to the island. 



On our first day we were so npisy as we cleared 

 a partly overgrown trail and pushed into the 

 underbrush after strange plants that we must 

 have scared away any big animal that might 

 have been close. The next day I started exploring 



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