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YOUNG ANIMALS AT THE ZOO 
sulking, on the floor. Though not more than half- 
grown, they are more massive in shape, richer in 
colour and marking, than any full-grown tiger in the 
Zoo. The record of their capture is more complete 
than is usual in the case of animals presented by native 
princes. They are part of a litter of five taken at 
Charglain, about fifty miles from Hyderabad. The 
Nawab himself shot the tigress, and had alighted from 
his howdah to measure it, when an alarm was raised by 
the beaters that another tiger had been seen creeping 
in the jungle. On the beat being resumed the five 
cubs, then about a fortnight old, were caught, each 
being about the size of a full-grown cat. For the 
first week a she-goat acted as foster-mother, but they 
were afterwards brought up by hand with cows’-milk 
from a feeding-bottle. For food on the voyage to 
England they were provided with a flock of sheep, 
and so well were they fed, that they arrived at the 
Gardens with half a sheep still uneaten in the cage . 1 
The two lion cubs caught by Lord Delamere in 
Somaliland were hardly of age to leave the nursery, 
though the difference of temper which is so commonly 
observed among lions was already marked. One, 
a beautifully mealy-tinted little lioness, with a thick 
rough coat like a St. Bernard puppy, and dark-brown 
eyes, ran out to play with a handkerchief, and could be 
petted like a kitten. The other was a morose little 
savage, lying at the back of the cage, and growling at 
1 The tigers were, in fact, over-fed. They were too heavy for 
their legs, their hind-quarters grew weak, and one has died. 
