FOOD OF VARIOUS ANIMALS AND BIRDS 
branches of trees at night, they quickly but with deter- 
mined grasp catch and hold the little birds at roost, and 
eat them alive, generally beginning by biting off the bill. 
In captivity they feed the same as the galagoes. 
LIONS, TIGERS, LEOPARDS {FELIBM). 
In captivity the Felidm feed upon the flesh of other 
animals, and, as a rule, in most collections the flesh of 
horses and oxen is used on account of the large quantity 
they consume; as, for instance, a lion or tiger of full 
growth will eat from 9 to 12 lbs. of flesh every day ; a 
leopard from 4 to 7 lbs. 
There can be no doubt but the ' most natural and best 
method of feeding these animals would be to let them 
have the body or part of the body of much smaller animals 
than horses or bulls, so that they could eat the small 
bones, skin, intestines and all, with the blood contained 
in the blood-vessels. 
Experience has proved that lions which have been fed 
upon the flesh only of large animals do not breed freely, 
and rarely have perfect offspring; the defective palate 
of the young being the most frequent and almost constant 
character of imperfection. 
The certainty of this has now been fully established by 
observations made on animals bred in captivity. 
CHEETAH (FELIS JUBATA). 
Requires careful feeding. Never let them over-feed, 
or attempt to move them from one cage to another 
immediately after a meal. They often have fits if fright- 
ened or driven about. Small portion of beef, mutton, 
pigeons, and ducks’ or fowls’ heads, etc. 
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