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wooded country, bounded by steep wooded hills on one side and by 

 the river Iser on the other. The city of Munich gave the land but 

 the zoo is maintained by a private society. Its popularity can be 

 judged by the fact that two-thirds of the entire population of 

 Munich visited it the first year. 



The animals are arranged according to their native continents. One 

 tropical house has been built and several more have been planned. 

 Already the collection contains 2,500 birds and animals, with larger 

 herds of each species than is usual in zoological gardens. 



Fig. 43. — New tropical building, Munich. The outside elephant paddock is 

 separated from visitors only by a moat. 



The pachyderm house is the best lighted large house that we saw. 

 An open air lion pit, with one portion 100 feet long, is separated 

 from the public by a water-filled moat. The domestic animals of each 

 continent are together in very large paddocks. The penguin pool 

 contained 17 specimens of 4 species. In the South American group 

 were a pair of breeding Patagonian cavies, and we later secured a 

 pair of young ones from these for the National Zoo. 



The African steppe is 350 meters long and contains zebras, 30 

 crowned cranes, Abyssinian guinea fowl, antelope, storks, herons, 

 spur-winged geese, and gnus. Two acres are enclosed in a monkey 

 pit inhabited by 100 hamadryas baboons. The elephant pit is 3 acres 

 in extent, with a 50-foot bathing pool. 



