WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY 



and I find the best remedy is to rub in dry sulphur in the 

 powdered state. Camels never wash, but they always 

 have plenty of water near them and drink when they 

 think proper. During the summer they have green food 

 such as tares and grass, but not in large quantities. 



HIPPOPOTAMI. 



The hippopotamus is a greedy feeder. In warm weather 

 its usual daily meal consists of a large supply of the 

 commonest grass, with a feed of bran, crushed oats, chaff, 

 and a few roots. In the winter meadow hay serves instead 

 of grass, with a good supply of mangolds, carrots, and 

 straw. A large tank of water must be supplied for the 

 beast to swim in at all seasons, as unless it can have access to 

 water the skin becomes diseased and cracks, and the life 

 of the animal is soon endangered by the drying of the 

 skin. 



The hippopotamus born on November 5, 1872, began to 

 feed with its mother a few days after its birth. It was 

 supplied with boiled mangold crushed into a pulp, mixed 

 with bran, sugar, Indian corn-flour, and fine chaff (cut 

 meadow hay). 



Carefully avoid giving the animal fine, long hay; it 

 collects in a ball in the stomach of many young animals 

 before their teeth grow. 



SLOTH {EDENTATA). 



The sloths, I have no doubt, are strictly vegetarians. 

 I have never had one that would eat flesh or animal sub- 

 stance of any kind, the nearest approach being bread-and- 

 milk. They do well in confinement on green food and 

 bread-and-milk ; they eat fruit of various kinds, and are 

 very fond of lettuce, leaves of plants, bananas, figs, etc. 



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