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their normal instincts and habits of daily life, and in a setting 

 resembling as far as possible the environment in which they 

 naturally would be found in a state of freedom. 



Many experiments carried on in their Garden, which would 

 be considered hazardous by many, have shown to how great an 

 extent tropical animals can adapt themselves to changed cli- 

 matic conditions. The large artificial rock work which consti- 

 tutes the quarters of the baboons and common monkeys is truly 

 a remarkable exhibit, with nearly a hundred of these animals 

 scampering over the rocks. At the back of the rock work are 

 interior quarters which the animals reach by passing through 

 trap doors, and where they may retreat during stormy weather 

 or at night. 



The grand panorama view is of an enclosure containing a 

 great variety of European and tropical cranes and water fowl 

 on an artificial lake in the foreground, beyond which is a plain 

 enclosing elands and other African antelopes ; next a plateau 

 with lions roaming over the rocks, and finally in the back-ground 

 huge artificial rocks reaching high into the air, and with moun- 

 tain sheep and goats running and jumping about. 



In the Lion House during the date of my visit, there were 

 five litters of young lion cubs, varying in ages from two weeks 

 to two months. Two more litters were due to arrive within six 

 days. During one afternoon I saw an exhibition performance 

 of fourteen full grown lions in a large open air cage. On the 

 same afternoon fourteen magnificent full grown tigers were 

 put through their exhibition in the same cage. These exhibi- 

 tions in addition to the great pleasure given to the visitors were 

 doubtless of great benefit to the animals in giving them the exer- 

 cise that they need to keep them in such fine physical condition. 



Practically all the hoofed tropical animals are forced to stay 

 out-of-doors all the time. They are very active and certainly 

 look to be in the best of health. Among the many rare zoolog- 

 ical specimens seen at the Hagenbeck Park were two full grown 

 Alaskan moose in splendid condition ; a pair of very large speci- 

 mens of the two-horned African rhinoceros ; a young one horned 

 African rhinoceros, which Mr. Lorenz Hagenbeck believes to be 

 a very rare species of the rhinoceros ; a pair of sea elephants, 

 weighing about 1200 pounds each ; a South African sea-bear ; sev- 

 eral specimens of the dark grey water-buck (Cobus ellipsiprym- 

 nus) ; and a very large and intelligent walrus which gives daily 



