Show mena menagerie gerle animals insane A brooklyn physician tells mo me that all the animals in menagerie and in every other menagerie for that matter are insane not howling boarin roaring biting mad but simply oil off their mental bases he says that no animal accustomed to the free range of woods and hills hilla can be cooped up tip in a cage for more than two or three months without going to pieces intellectually and maundering laundering maun dering around his cage m in an aimless manner pay paying iii little attention to anything but his feed F for or snakes crocco diles and that sort of cold blooded creatures confinement is not irksome they obtain their provender without hustling for it and that suits thern them to a dot some kinds of birds too find imprisonment a natural condition for foi they and their ancestors for many generations were born in cages cage and sand never know liberty but with strong and active animals tile the case is different the lion the tiger the wolf fox and bear do not endure transplanting from their native deserts plains and jungles imprisonment in little cages is to them the direst cruelty how would a man feel if he had to live in one rambler in brooklyn eagle |