92 WILD ANIMAL CELEBRITIES 



W. T. Hornaday and was authorized to buy 

 the animal for the New York Zoological Park. 

 The total cost of this tiny rhinoceros, still 

 only an infant, when finally landed in his 

 cage at the Park was $4,532. 



Mr. Herbert 0. Lang, a taxidermist for 

 the American Museum of Natural History, 

 was engaged to take care of the baby animal, 

 and took him from Mombasa by steamer to 

 Naples, and thence by the White Star Liner 

 Cedric to New York. Every care and atten- 

 tion was given to the diet and exercise of 

 this valuable little animal. The quantity of 

 unsweetened condensed milk was increased 

 from three cans a day to nine, and before 

 very long the rhinoceros calf and Mr. Lang 

 were to be seen daily taking vigorous exercise 

 between decks, generally covering a distance 

 of about five miles a day. 



Mesoviro arrived on the last day of the 

 year and, on January 1st, 1907, weighed 235 

 pounds and stood 26 inches at the shoulder. 

 With Mr. Lang, the young rhinoceros was 

 most docile, gentle, and affectionate, but for 



