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Antelope. A beautiful young male Lesser Kudu named “Toto” 
was presented to me by Mr. Gribble, a police officer at Isiolo. It 
had an interesting history. 
It appears that in the course of police patrol somewhere in the 
Northern District, a tribesman offered a newly caught baby Lesser 
Kudu to the officer in charge. He took pity on the beautiful little 
creature, but the problem arose how to feed it as no such thing as 
a feeding-bottle was obtainable in this sparsely inhabited semi- 
desert area. However, one of the party had a football, and it shows 
the resourcefulness of some humans in that this was the means of 
saving the little animal’s life and getting it safely to headquarters. 
The football bladder was taken from its cover, a piece cut out of 
the bottom, and the bladder filled with diluted tinned milk. The 
mouth-piece was then employed as a teat, and Toto was thus 
nourished during his long lorry ride through the dry thorn-scrub. 
The gerenuk, like the giraffe, is an example of adaptation to a 
special mode of life. It is a browser and benefits considerably by 
its elongated neck when reaching up to tear off its favorite acacia 
leaves. This is nearly always done while the animal is poised on 
its hind legs, bolt upright, with the front feet resting gently on 
some flimsy branches to give support. 
The northern dry country is the home of Grevy’s Zebra and the 
Reticulated Giraffe. This zebra is a much sturdier and hardier 
animal than the more common and widely distributed Burchell’s 
Zebra and can be easily distinguished by its more numerous body 
stripes, there being about sixteen stripes on the flanks compared 
with less than half this number in the Burchell’s. A further dif- 
ference in the Grevy’s is the striping of the legs down to the 
hooves. This zebra in turn can be distinguished from the Moun- 
tain Zebra by its white buttocks, the latter having a gridiron 
pattern of transverse stripes in this part. 
Grevy’s Zebra crosses readily with horses, the offspring being 
beautiful creatures. Raymond Hook crossed a Grevy’s stallion 
with an Arab mare and the foal followed very closely the mother’s 
form even to the mane; but the stripes, though less pronounced, 
were more numerous ee in the sire. 
Up to this time the London Zoo had never had a specimen af 
the Reticulated Giraffe, though it is by far the most attractively 
