WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY 



COMMON GENET {GENETTA) AND CIVET CAT 

 {riVERRICVLA). 



Feed much the same as the ichneumon {Herpestes). As 

 often as possible give bread-and-milk, or boiled rice-and- 

 milk, to keep them cool in hot weather ; because during 

 the summer, from want of exercise, if fed too well they 

 get fat, often mangy, and out of health. 



PALM-CIVETS (VIVERRIDJS FARODOXINE). 



Easily kept. They require fresh meat raw or cooked, 

 small birds, or mammals, bread-and-milk, boiled rice-and- 

 milk, with sugar or honey. They will eat ripe fruit. 



BINTUEONG (ARCTICTIS). 



The animal appears to me to be a fruit and almost a 

 vegetable feeder. Boiled rice with milk and sugar, honey, 

 fruit, a little flesh raw, or better cooked, is the chief food 

 of most of the individuals of the species I have met with. 

 They are easily kept in confinement, and are mostly 

 nocturnal in their habits. They must be kept warm. 



ICHNEUMON (HERPESTES). 



Feed as the suricates, but perhaps more fond of living 

 animals, which they enjoy to kill and suck the warm 

 blood. 



SUEICATES. 



These feed on the same kind of food as the Viverridce. 

 They seldom eat fruit, but are fond of birds' eggs and 

 insects ; they must be kept rather short of food than over 

 fed, as they are very liable to fits in captivity. 



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