XL1L ANIMAL ACCLIMATIZATION AT 

 WOBURN ABBEY 



THIS volume, which began with an instance of the 

 necessity for animals to-day, shown in the demand for 

 the reindeer and snow-camel for Klondike, may close 

 appropriately with a significant example of the value 

 set on animals as among the pleasures of life. 



During recent years the Duke of Bedford has carried 

 out a scheme of animal acclimatization in the park at 

 Woburn Abbey on a scale never before attempted in 

 this country. Birds as well as quadrupeds are the 

 subjects of this experiment, and the magnificent pheasants 

 of India and China haunt the woods in large numbers. 

 But the greater number of the animals are various kinds 

 of deer, of which no fewer than thirty-four species are 

 in the open park or paddocks bison, zebras, antelopes, 

 wild sheep and goats, and yaks. The novelty and 

 freshness of this experiment consists not only in the 



accumulation of such a number of species, interesting 



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