284 Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist 



play with them and at the same time they seemed 

 to be somewhat in doubt about the camera. It 

 took me over an hour to get any one of them 

 to move far enough away from the bars to enable 

 me to make the shot that I wanted, and that was 

 the only one that I obtained. Luckily it turned 

 out fairly well, so I was not disappointed. 



The wolves, too, acted in much the same man- 

 ner, insisting on having their heads scratched or 

 sticking their noses through the bars to lick my 

 hand. Going inside the cage does not mend 

 matters much, as they crowd around so closely 

 as to make it impossible to do anything. 



The animals that are more wild are easier sub- 

 jects, for, even though they may refuse to come 

 near enough for j'ou to use an ordinary lens, still 

 fine pictures may be obtained with the telephoto, 

 and even if the ordinary lens is used and the 

 resulting image very small it can always be en- 

 larged, provided it is sharp enough in detail. 

 But the animals that insist on coming close to 

 the bars to be petted, and especially those that 

 try to examine the camera by sticking their paws 

 through the bars and making dabs at it, are the 

 ones that try your patience. 



The use of a tripod camera in the Zoos is sel- 

 dom necessary, except when using a telephoto 

 lens, and is most disheartening ; and I should never 

 advise its use. With the reflex or the twin lens 



