NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK, 53 
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BACTRIAN CAMELS. 
only to be devoured by the wolves which infest the Park. 
Coyotes have been seen to run down and kill antelope within 
sight of the town of Gardiner. 
Unfortunately, the Prong-Horned Antelope is not a hardy 
animal. The kids are very difficult to rear; they are at all 
times easily hurt by accident, and even in a state of nature 
this species suffers more severely in winter than any other 
North American ruminant. Often the herds drift helplessly 
before the blizzards, with numerous deaths from freezing 
and starvation, and in spring the survivors come out thin 
and weak. 
THE CAMEL HOUSE, No. 39. 
Speaking in a collective sense, the Camel is much more 
than an ordinary animal unit in a zoological park. On the 
high plains of central and southwestern Asia, and through- 
out the arid regions of Africa, it is an institution. Without 
it, many portions of the Old World would be uninhabitable 
by man. Take either Dromedary or Bactrian Camel, and it 
is a sad-eyed, ungainly, slow-moving creature, full of plaints 
and objections; but remember that it goes so far back to- 
ward the foundations of man’s dynasty, that beside it the 
oldest American history seems but a record of yesterday. 
