ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



CALIFORNIA iCONDOR 

 A difficult subject to photosrapll. 



decided to remedy this difficulty with the pres- 

 ent specimen by keeping her in Africa and 

 inducing her to feed upon the products we shall 

 offer here. This involved a long and tedious 

 process of initiation, but this gorilla has been 

 induced to eat bread and various other cereals. 

 She is now considered jiroperly trained to leave 

 her native land. 



It is gratifying to note that the gibbon, which 

 has been of so much interest at the Primate 

 House, continues in a thriving condition. These 

 animals are delicate and difficult to keep in 

 good health, but the specimen at hand is an 

 exceptionally active one and the great amount 

 of exercise in which it indulges daily accounts 

 for its continued thriving condition. 



A Huqe Orang. — A new arrival, possibly the 

 most spectacular animal in the Park, is the 

 huge Orang-Utan recentlv received from Hag- 

 enbeck. This is probably the largest anthro- 

 poid that has ever been exhibited alive in this 

 country. We estimate the weight of "Ali" to 

 be about ISO pounds. He is fairly good tem- 

 pered, but cannot be trusted and no two men 

 could overpower him if he decided to attack 



them. We treat this superb creature as a dan- 

 gerous animal and the keepers are not permit- 

 ted to enter his cage. "Ali" receives the same 

 rations as a man, eating three hearty meals a 

 day and enjoying a dinner of soup, meat, vege- 

 tables, bread and several glasses of milk. His 

 table manners are not of the best, but we have 

 decided that he is too strong and willful to be 

 taught to eat in the dignified fashion of the 

 smaller anthropoids on exhibition. R. I„ D. 



Ground Hornhills. — The hornbills, taken col- 

 lectively, are arboreal birds, seeking the bulk 

 of their food among the tree tops. When they 

 do descend to the ground, they are clumsy and 

 quite evidently out of place, progressing with 

 awkward hops. 



In Africa, however, are found two species of 

 very large birds, known as the Ground Horn- 

 bills, (Biicorar), which are almost entirely ter- 

 restrial in habit. Their legs are long and the 

 feet flat and strongly developed, an evident 

 adaptation to life on the ground. Thej' walk 

 instead of hopping, and are able to run very 

 swiftly, seldom taking wing unless very closely 

 pressed. 



