WILD AJSriMALS IN CAPTIVITY 



PORCUPINE {HYSTRIX). 



The HystricidcB are by no means difficult to keep in 

 condition. They will eat a very great variety of different 

 kinds of food, roots, bark of trees, leaves, nuts, berries, 

 green food, bones; the large or small bones of horses 

 or oxen, with a small quantity of flesh on them, are in 

 cold weather freely taken ; they will cut through the leg- 

 bones to get the marrow. They like a warm dry place 

 to sleep in and retire to during the daytime. Hard dry 

 biscuit, Indian corn, oats, etc., form great part of their 

 food in confinement. They do not unfrequently breed in 

 captivity. 



HARES AND RABBITS (LEPOBIDJE). 



Every one is supposed to know how to keep hares and 

 rabbits, but it is not always easy to keep them in con- 

 dition, and to get them to thrive well in confinement. 

 As a rule, they have too much moist food given to them, 

 and this always proves fatal ; the drier the food the better 

 they thrive ; and, above all, they require to be kept clean, 

 and to be given plenty of clean fresh straw. Their food 

 should be hay, clover, oats and bran ; a little green food, 

 such as grass, cabbage, celery, parsley; and roots, such as 

 carrots, mangold, or parsnips. For very young animals fresh 

 tea-leaves mixed with pollard or fine bran is better than 

 green food. Scraped carrot added to this mixture, to 

 which a little oatmeal may also be added, has often saved 

 a brood when the mother has been lost or killed. 



RHINOCEROS. 



The food in captivity is clover or meadow hay, straw, 

 boiled rice mixed with bran, roots, such as mangold and 

 carrots, grass, leaves, branches of trees and shrubs, bread, 



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