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Show DAINTY EATERS. A menagerie elephant eats about one hundred pounds of the best timothy hay over twenty-four hours. Giraffes, camels, zebras and deer are also hay-eating animals, but are not so particular in reference to its quality as the elephant. Sea lions have to be fed on fish, usually fresh and salt mackerel, each animal taking twelve or fifteen to each meal twice in a day, and consuming altogether one hundred pounds of fish daily. Next in point of delicate livers come the polar bears, whose regular diet is bread soaked in milk, with fish now and then for a change. The black bears are also given bread, one hundred pounds being used daily. Vegetables of almost every sort are fed liberally to the different animals - cabbage, potatoes, carrots, onions and turnips. The elephants are great cabbage eaters, in addition to their standard diet, hay. The giraffes, singularly enough, are great onion eaters, while the deer and goats, and animals of the cow species, eat carrots and turnips and potatoes. Bran and oats and corn are also liberally distributed - mostly once or twice a week among the hay-eating animals. But the orang-outang [orangutan] is the most dainty feeder of all, living on bread and honey, beef and potatoes - a diet alarmingly like that of humanity. |