340 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1941 



Sloth (Bradypus) has not generally been successfully kept in captivity, but the 

 two-toed sloth (Choloepus) thrives on a diet of lettuce, bananas, leaves, and 

 twigs. They like to go into the water to bathe, but are easily killed by chilling. 

 Sloths hang beneath limbs and cannot stand upright. Therefore, they should be 

 provided with substantial limbs or vines on which to climb. 



ARMADILLOS (Dasypodidae, Euphractidae, Chlamyphoridae, and Tolypeu- 

 tidae). Powerful diggers that feed almost exclusively on insects and perhaps to 

 some degree on carrion. Some of them have been very successfully kept when 

 fed mealworms, ground meat, eggs, and milk. Some are so nearly toothless as to 

 be unable to tear pieces of meat. Armadillos probably thrive best when permitted 

 access to the ground, but the walls and bottom of the cage in which they are to 

 burrow must be of well-constructed cement. They cannot survive cold weather. 



PANGOLINS (Manidae). Large-scaled inhabitants of Africa and southern I 

 Asia. Powerful burrowers. Feed mainly on insects, termites, and ants. Have 

 not generally been successfully kept in captivity, although some have done fairly 

 well when fed on mealworms, ground meat, milk, and eggs. One very young 

 animal thrived in the hands of a sailor for more than a month on a diet of green 

 beans that had been chewed by the sailor. It also received some canned milk. 



CLO\'EN-HOOrED ANIMALS ( ARTIOD ACTHTLA ) 



CATTLE, SHEEP, GOATS, OLD WORLD ANTELOPES (Bovidae). Feed 

 grass, clover, weeds, leaves and twigs of trees, chopped vegetables, grain, and 

 hay. Keep rock salt constantly before them. 



AMERICAN PRONGHORN ANTELOPE (Antilocapridae). Feed grass, clover, 

 alfalfa, weeds, grain, hay, chopped vegetables, and rock salt. Do not generally 

 thrive in captivity, especially in the eastern United States, Possibly large en- 

 closures and a wide variety of food might give better results in keeping them. 



GIRAFFE and OKAPI (Giraffidae). Browsing animals, but giraffe are suc- 

 cessfully kept on a diet mainly of hay, chopped vegetables, grain, green vegeta- 

 tion, and rock salt. The few okapies that have been taken into captivity have 

 been fed a wide variety of green vegetation, hay, grain, and vegetables. Probably 

 require salt. 



DEER, ELK, MOOSE (Cervidae). Feed grass, clover, weeds, leaves and twigs 

 of trees and shrubs, hay, grain, chopped vegetables, and rock salt. Moose (Alces) 

 forage extensively in swamps and stream bottoms, consuming lily roots and 

 leaves, grasses, leaves, and twigs. Have not generally done well in captivity. 

 Caribou and reindeer (Rangifer) do not require the so-called reindeer mosses 

 (lichens, Oladoivia), although they of necessity feed on them extensively on j 

 their northern ranges. " 



MOUSE DEER, WATER DEER OR CHEVROTAIN (Tragulidae). Feed grass, 

 clover, weeds, leaves and twigs of trees and shrubs, hay, grain, chopped vege- 

 tables, and rock salt. Keep warm. 



CAMELS and LLAMAS (Camelidae). Feed green vegetation, chopped vege- 

 tables, hay, grain, and rock salt. 



HOGS and PIGS (Suidae). Feed chopped vegetables, grain, grass, weeds, 

 leaves and twigs of trees, acorns and other soft nuts, meat, and bread. Some 

 must be kept warm. 



PECCARIES, (Tayassuidae). Same care as hogs. 



HIPPOPOTAMI and PIGMY HIPPOPOTAMI (Hippopotamidae). Feed grass, 

 clover, weeds, hay, and a mixture of chopped vegetables and grain. 



