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-fiour, 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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