Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-08-27 | Page 14 | Animals Wise in Care of Young

c. c A ANIMALS ANIMALS' IMAL S WISE I ICARE IN CARE OF YOUNG N G GC o C cc I T hrs has h J been proven ro from the experience experience 1 ot of showmen and animal trainers time and tithe time again that animals can cari take care of or their young young much better than human humn beings said aid John Patterson son who ho has charge charS of or the zoological department of or the tho Barnum Bar- Bar Barnum Barnum I num S Balle Bailey Gr Greatest Show Sho Shoon on Earth Eaith which comes to Salt Lake City next Saturday So far a as I know mow there Id is only ono one place in the country count where they raise ralso hippopotami and anul that Is Jg the Bronx p park In New York When tile the first hippopotamus mus was 9 born the mother mothel developed the habit i r. r i V of ot taking aking the tho baby under the water t twenty ana ands i for and holding g it there thirty minutes at a a. time Now there then was was a bunch of wise keepers watched the performance a num er of or times and nd became greatly agitated i They feared the old lady would drown drama tho the little one so rather than endure the reproaches of the park puk or the tho agony agony of of se seeing its death they k took it from the mother It was no nowhere war where but on deck for that little tellow tel rei- i ilow t the wise iso low from thence on the gamer g game w having haIng concluded they knew better bet hippopotami of bringing up uIt baby oG 0 result ter than the mother mothel The hippopotami hip hip- their care and attention was an nil I funeral with the UH attendants attendant and the old beast for 01 the ch chief chic of mourn 1 wen ers ors The Tho h next time the tho trainers wiser and when the mother toot took t ok It i under tho the water for tor twenty or b be minutes at a a. time their pulses and the haved hayed in a normal way fellow tellow was allowed to soak oae Jj i grew and was sent to Cincinnati nail