WILD-CATS AT THE ZOO 
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at the Zoo are hardly such as tend to promote good- 
temper. 
The remaining occupants of the Cat House are 
mostly lynxes, or half-lynxes, like the servals and 
caracals, or civets and genets. There is a fine col- 
lection of the last pretty little creatures, which are 
far more like ichneumons and mongooses than any 
form of cat. The most interesting fact about these 
thoroughly Oriental-looking beasts is that one is 
actually found in the Alps, where one could almost 
as soon expect to discover a cobra or a crocodile. 
They are beautifully marked and spotted with black 
and dark brown or smoky-grey, and are as restless as 
a mongoose or a coati. 
