Zoo Notes 
THE “ Vilde-honden” of the Boers was called 
by last century naturalists by 
the very appropriate name of 
Hunting Hyena, it is the 
dread of the sheep farmers, for not content 
with making a meal off the sheep, they will 
Tip open, tear, and mangle, fifty more than 
they can devour. These pests are about the 
size of a large Dalmatian Dog, thei coat is 
yellowish grey, strangely marked (without 
any symmetry) with splashes of black, 
pzincipally upon the legs. They go in 
packs of about twenty, and hunt down 
their prey in relays; part of the pack will 
make the running, and when the leaders are 
tired out, they will fall back, and the others 
who have been reserving them strength will 
come up and 
relieve them. 
The restlessness 
of the ones at 
the Zoo, when 
not curled up on 
the piece of old 
sacking, has 
cost photo- 
graphers many 
dozens of 
plates, and it 
was only after 
many weary, 
attempts that I 
was even able to 
obtain the poor 
result shown, 
which however 
I believe is the 
only one ever 
taken. 
Os 
The Cape 
Hunting Dog. 
THESE diminutive horses were first discovered 
by the celebrated Russian 
traveller after whom they are 
named, but until the present 
time no specimens had been sent to England, 
Prijevalsky’s 
Wild Horses. 
and they were practically unknown to 
naturalists. Those now exhibited were 
captured at the same time as the 12 
possessed by the Duke of Bedford, and two 
have been forwarded from the Zoo to the 
THE WALLABY AND HER YOUNG. 
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Hon. Walter Rothschild. They were all 
brought to England by the well-known 
dealer, Carl Hargenbeck, who it is stated 
employed a whole tribe of men numbering 
over a thousand to capture them in Western 
Mongolia. Some disappointment has been 
expressed by visitors at the appearance of 
these “wild” horses, especially when it has 
been recorded that each specimen cost £250. 
In appearance they have been likened to a 
Shetland pony, and although they have only 
been here a short time they are getting 
quite tame, and feed out of the hand. 
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THE breeding of the Wallabys at the Zoo 
Rufour Necked Seems to 
Wallaby. 
go apace, and the 
Marsulials, 1 believe, hold the 
LEGORG LOR 
animals ‘ Born 
in the Menag- 
erie.’ The rufi- 
collic variety 
showing the 
young one’s 
head protruding 
from the pouch 
is interesting 
as the latest 
addition to the 
Zoo. How the 
young are 
placed in the 
pouch after 
thei premature 
birth I cannot 
find any testi- 
mony, and as 
far as the 
keepers at the 
Zoo are con- 
cerned none of 
them know how or when transition takes 
place. 
