Show BEASTS Why Wild Animals Are Restless When Under Restraint The second of 1 articles article in the Century on The National Zoo at Washington con eludes dudes this study of animate animals in Ins rub rela thin tion to their natural environment It appears a pears in the theMay May number with many by the author Mr j j I I I Thompson speaks incidentally of the restlessness of captive animals i It Js i a ii common saying among keep j ers ens that averaging one animal with another a menagerie must be renewed every three years yeats Yet I know of one j i manager who wh kept most of bin hia sal ani animals mals malz those of Woodwards gardens gerdena San an Francisco alive healthy and aist hap py from the beginning of his time to t the end sixteen years year later when the was Wa broken up and the animate were ordered to be shot abet in I their cages Toe The great secret of his success He lie teNs tells roe me was caring earing for their minde as well aa for their bodies Many a amen roan shut up in a cell ceil has saved his mind fund by inventing some trifling amusement ai It is recorded that one set a daily dIly watch on the movements of a spider Idec Another tried how many times he had to toas pin before they fell in Just the same way Another tried to run ten miles milea each day in his narrow limits Yet an another another other busied himself inventing new ar an arrangements for the two or three anti arti articles cles cIe of furniture in Ms isis cell cL Meaty Many have paced up and down each day ky for fora a number of o hours And whatever they did ail au alike were seeking to pat m In time to while away the aWful tedium of their monotonous lives to r si on onto I to tire the natural craving for exercise and to save their minde slat and bodies from actually withering from tret hOuse If Instead of human humen captives we read wild animate animals ii in all this w we shall have a very fair portrait of o what we may many see ceo every eve day in an ordinary menagerie Why does the elephant swing to and fro fre forever front from his chain picket Why does he gather train from the floor all the straw be he can reach throw It over his hia beck back and over tie tia stable to be gathered r later Why does the squirrel enter anti and work for hours the I aimless tread Wheel and the matteL marten leip listlessly half a day from point to point floor perch at t box floor perch slat box again and again with monotonous sameness day after day Why does the lone ostrich waltz far I more macro than does his hia wild that I Iha has ha many admiring spectators of his own kind nail why do the lost fox sad and the trot miles mUen and miles of cage front every day Why does the bear roll and tumble for hours hoars over the same Elaine old wooden w eden ball bali as if it were a newfound chum or If no haM bait te is sup plied piled swing back and forth on pivotal hind foot for hours each day Why does doe the rhinoceros keep on forever nosing at some rome projection that his fate horn can almost fasten under till it get more and more elusive through the smoothing of perpetual use Why do i wolves waives and monkeys put in hours and hours humble duties that in their wild state were the work of a few min mis minutes flies utes at moat nast To T aH all the answer is the some aa ant to the similar query about the theman mart man prisoner They Thoy are putting punting in time They are responding to the nat natural natural ural desire for exercise They are try trying ing to nees the tedium of theft home hae homeless less lees lives lived they are doing Anything everything their poor brains can n ngoat sug suggest goat gest to while away the weary drag ding of dull daya Their bellies are well troll cared for foi or at least are always plentifully cared for but how hew ew keepers hoAre learned that in est each az I mal is a mentality large or small that I ought to be considered |