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NORTHERN ENTRANCE ANI) EXECUTIVE OFFICES, TARONGA ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
Evidently the people are enthusiastic over their Park as this opening-day crowd demonstrates. It is worthy of note that the 
institution is a “Zoological Park” and not a “Zoo.” 
1883 when about twelve years old. She is now 
over fifty years, and well over the average age 
for elephants in captivity. For nearly forty 
years she has given long and faithful service, 
having carried hundreds of thousands of chil¬ 
dren without an accident. 
Seals are perhaps more interesting to watch 
than most carnivora. They are best seen from 
an elevation, and the visitor at Taronga is about 
ten feet above their large pond. To see them 
bounding over 150 feet of water after a fish is 
to be lost in wonder as to where the great speed 
comes from. The Australian fur seal which is 
the species shown, is kept in bounds by a three- 
foot ornamental concrete wall. Two of the first 
inmates of the pond, received before the struc¬ 
ture was complete, escaped. A large bull swam 
out to sea and was seen no more, but a hand¬ 
some young male was found practising diving 
evolutions in a ladies’ swimming bath about 
three miles away. 
As befits an Australian zoo, the Order Mar- 
supialia is well represented, but as the grounds 
are as yet unfinished, and about half the allotted 
space is occupied by antelope, nevertheless a 
fairly representative collection is on exhibition. 
The weather is mild enough to enable the kan¬ 
garoos to be kept out of doors in large paddocks 
all the year round, and here one can often see 
the red or the grey species indulging in their 
natural sport of boxing under rules which al¬ 
low the use of both arms and hind limbs as 
occasion offers. Each round lasts about three 
minutes, and the contest ends when one is ex¬ 
hausted. 
The ungulate sections are not yet built, and 
so only a few are shown in temporary quarters. 
These include a pair of Prjevalsky horses, bred 
in New York, impala, blackbuck, springbuck, 
camels, guanaco, llamas, zebu cattle, bison and 
a fine male hippo. 
The birds at Taronga Park are all shown in 
outdoor flight aviaries, no heating being re¬ 
quired. The cages are designed to give ade¬ 
quate shelter without resorting to the conven¬ 
tional house with flight cages attached. This 
was accomplished by constructing a concrete 
cover on the centre of a wire enclosure, an 
arrangement which while giving protection from 
the weather, keeps them always in view and 
does not detract from the outline of the struc¬ 
ture. In the case of the more delicate finches 
the aviary may be entirely closed in on the 
weather side. Very few birds are shown in- 
