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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



HUMAN PROFILE ICEBERG 



Photographed in June, 1909. off the entrance to the harbor of 



St. Johns. Newfoundland, bv V. S. Chapman, 



of Newark. New Jersey 



tented and quiet collection of lizards. But it 

 doe.s not. Hitherto the lizards have regarded 

 their domain as too small and persisted in leap- 

 ing the fence. While the hot days of summer 

 last, the escaped lizards do very well, hut as the 

 cool autumn nights herald the approach of 

 winter, the escaped lizards suffer accordingly, 

 and before they can be recaptured, sometimes 

 become hopelessly chilled, and do not survive 

 long. To prevent further escapes we are con- 

 structing a long run entirely covered with wire 

 mesh. In this the lizards may climb, but any 

 lea])ing will be limited, and escapes are posi- 

 tively barred. 



A New Cheetah. — A new cheetah has been 

 added to the collections of the Lion House, a big 

 specimen this time, and a very friendly one. 

 These friendly animals are valuable because they 

 feed well and usually live longer than the 

 nervous individuals. There is, in the new ar- 

 rival, no highly-strung nervous temperament to 

 become disarranged, with a consequent loss of 

 appetite that must be coaxed back to normal 

 conditions. This specimen has evidently been 

 trained for hunting, as he may easily be led 

 about on a leash. The collection of the Lion 

 House has never before been so large, or so 

 varied, and has never before contained so many 

 handsome animals. 



Playful Snore Leopards. — The two snow 

 leopards living in the big central outside cage 

 of the Lion House are the liveliest cats that we 

 have ever had. They are not only constantly 

 moving around, hut seem abundantly good- 

 natured. In captive animals this is a valuable 

 asset. The keepers enter the cage at cleaning 

 time, on a perfectly amicable basis with the 

 leopards; they perform their duties, and retire 

 without causing the slightest disturbance. Even 

 good-tempered animals are sometimes greatly 

 annoyed by the presence of human beings, and 

 often inflict injuries either upon themselves or 

 their keepers, purely through nervousness. These 



beautiful animals regard any unusual proceed- 

 ing with perfect equanimity, and play, eat or 

 sleep in the most systematic manner. 



Gunda's Tusks. — Animals with tusks and 

 horns devote a great deal of their time in wear- 

 ing them down, and in a good many instances, en- 

 tirely destroying them. The elephants are par- 

 ticularly gross offenders. An elephant is always 

 examining locks, bolts and bars, to the detriment 

 of his tusks. 



The little pigmy elephant, Congo, splintered 

 his tusks so badly that it was necessary to have 

 special brass castings made to fit the ends; and 

 sometime before, Gunda, becoming irritated at 

 Keeper Thuman, chased him from the corral, 

 incidentally ramming the fence and knocking six 

 inches from the end of one of his tusks. To 

 prevent further fractures, Gunda also will be 

 compelled to wear brass castings. 



Primate Kindergarten. — The daily exhibition 

 of our great apes dining and performing other 

 man-like feats, has been strengthened by the ad- 

 dition of some school-room work. A small black- 

 board has been introduced, and several of the 

 apes are able to grasp a piece of chalk and make 

 rough marks with it. It is exceedingly difficult 

 for an orang or chimpanzee to use the ends of 

 the fingers upon a small object. The chalk is 

 held against the palm of the hand, opjjosite the 

 thumb side, by the bent-in fingers. In this 

 fashion the marking is rather awkwardly man- 

 aged. Susie is by far the most expert. She 

 goes to the board, inills the cover down, takes 

 the piece of chalk and marks on the board, then 

 very soberly and even precisely places the chalk 

 back in the groove and pushes the cover into 

 place. Susie is a very versatile and apt pupil. 

 When Keeper Engelholm utters a few words 

 in a conversational tone, she readily understands. 



Xe-iC Sea-Lions. — The liig Jiool on Baird 

 Court once more resounds with the cheerful note 

 of the sea-lion. Earlv this summer the bottom 



INDIAN ELEPHANT GUNDA 



