WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY 



important that the animal from which the flesh is taken 

 should have been recently killed. The flesh should be 

 cut into long strips, about the size of a goose-quill, each 

 bit being given or introduced by one end into the mouth, 

 the other end being held in the hand. Another successful 

 method is to mince the flesh in the same maimer as 

 sausage-meat, and mix it with scalded bread -and-milk, to 

 which may be added raw or boiled eggs ; only the yolks 

 of the latter are to be used. 



I have heard, upon what I think good authority, that 

 one of these animals lived three or four months in 

 captivity upon the fresh blood of sheep and bullocks, with 

 which was mixed a little fine oatmeal. It may, therefore, 

 be possible, by varying the food with the above, and by 

 the addition of a little honey and the entrails of poultry 

 well washed and cut up, that the aard-vark may be kept 

 alive. It is difiicult, at first, to get these animals to take 

 to the artificial food, but with very great perseverance, a 

 good supply of patience, and by thoughtful care, it is to 

 be accomplished. 



But if the feeding be entrusted to servants, who seldom 

 take much interest in such things, I fear the result would 

 be, as heretofore, useless. 



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