WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY 



SKUNK {MEPHITIS). 



Feed as directed for Herpestes (ichneumon). 



OTTER {LUTRJ). 



Require a lighter food, such as fish and frogs ; they do 

 not object to small animals, birds, etc. They require to 

 have the free run of water, otherwise their eyes are likely 

 to suffer. 



RACCOON {PJiOCYON)] COATI {NASUA). 



Will eat almost anything ; Nasua is perhaps the least 

 particular. Meat of any kind, fruit, raw eggs, cooked rice, 

 bread-and-milk, anything sweet, vegetables, roots, in- 

 sects, etc. 



POLAR BEAR (THALASSARCTOS). 



This beast is the most strictly fish-eating of all the 

 bears, but in captivity it can be partly fed upon bread, 

 biscuit, etc. At the same time, it requires a strong oily 

 or fat food. Passing a great part of its time in the water, 

 it takes much exercise, and must be well fed, upon fish, 

 fat (horse fat will answer), and now and then the common 

 fish-oil (as it is called), that is, seal or whale oil. 



BROWN BEAR (URSUS) ; SYRIAN BEAR, ETC. 



The brown and other bears will do well on boiled rice and 

 sweet food, bread, biscuits, roots such as potatoes (boiled), 

 etc. They seldom require flesh or animal food in captivity. 



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