62 THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS OF EUROPE 



The parents have bred no less than twelve youngsters 

 between 1886 and 1900, the period of gestation being 

 238 days. Several young ones have been sold to other 

 Gardens for very large prices. Pony and donkey 

 carriages run about the Gardens carrying children. 

 A very good band played all the afternoon when I was 

 there, and the Gardens were full of fashionably-dressed 

 people. Some of the statues in the Gardens are very 

 fine, notably a group representing an Indian horseman 

 attacked by jaguars. One of the things which will 

 probably strike the visitor most is the enormous number 

 of ducks, the ponds literally swarming with them. 



