YOUNG ANIMALS AT THE ZOO 
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every passer-by. They are fed on mutton powdered 
with bone-dust, and promise to rival in beauty even 
the slim and elegant young lioness presented by the 
Sultan of Zanzibar. 
Three litters of wild swine were born in the Gardens 
during the first eight months of 1893 — two early in 
the spring, and one, of four beautiful piglings, late in 
the summer. Young wild boars are far prettier than 
might be expected from the rather forbidding appear- 
ance of their parents. Their bodies are slim and 
elegant, their snouts fine, their ears short, and 
their legs and feet almost as finely-shaped as those of 
a young antelope. Their colour is a bright fawn or 
a rich tan, with longitudinal stripes like those on a 
tabby kitten ; and in place of the thick bristles of the 
older pigs, their bodies are covered with a long and 
thick coat of rough hair. Family life in the wild 
boars’ quarters is harmonious and amusing. For the 
first month the little orange-striped pigs depend on 
their mother for food, and take no notice either of 
visitors or of each other. Each roams about by itself 
in the most independent fashion, or drops down to 
sleep on its stomach, with its legs stretched straight 
out before and behind, like a kneeling elephant in 
miniature. Later, when they have to be satisfied with 
the food provided in the troughs, they become the 
most amusing and importunate beggars in the Zoo, the 
old sow and boar setting the example, well supported 
by the little pigs. The whole family stand upright on 
their hind-legs in a row, like heraldic pigs supporting a 
