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the first few days in the Park he refused to 

 allow a strange keeper to feed him. But he 

 seemed to know by that time that the keeper 

 was his friend and is now quite contented, 

 consumes eleven cans of unsweetened con- 

 densed milk a day and all the boiled rice and 

 finest clover hay he can get. 



The other rhinoceros in the antelope house 

 close to Mesoviro is also an African, and 

 curiously enough was captured when three 

 months old by the same man who captured 

 Mesoviro, and in much the same way. This 

 is a female and has been in the Park now 

 since June, 1906 ; she is thriving and healthy. 

 Her only adventure was when, some time ago, 

 having a painful abscess in her jaw, an opera- 

 tion was performed, in the middle of which 

 she sent everything near her flying. But the 

 operation saved her, for she recovered her 

 health and spirits and has been perfectly well 

 ever since. 



In the Zoological Gardens at Amsterdam, 

 there is a pair of the biggest hippopotami I 

 have ever seen. They are certainly well taken 



