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Show Kruger National Park Modeled After Yellowstone; Has Variety of Animals It may not be home on the range but Kruger National park is perhaps per-haps the world's greatest playground play-ground of deer, antelope and all the astonishing variety of Africa's wild life. Roughly as large as the state of Massachusetts and more than twice the size of Yellowstone National park, after which it was modeled, Kruger National park contains within with-in its bounds probably a greater diversity di-versity of wild life than can be found in any like area the world over, according ac-cording to a correspondent. Noah himself would be surprised at the variety of wild life the park boasts. Elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, hip-popotamuses, giraffes, warthogs, zebras, ze-bras, bushpigs, buffalos, wildebeests, impalas, judus, antelopes, tsesse-bes, tsesse-bes, elands, reedbucks, lions, cheetahs, chee-tahs, baboons, not to mention scores of kinds of wild birds, inhabit it Lions are always numerous and signs gravely warn travelers against teasing them. Good-natured and lazy when not frightened or hungry, lions often lie in the middle of the park's roads, refusing to budge until automobiles are almost upon them. They do not associate man with the automobile and travelers trav-elers are perfectly safe from them while driving through the park. Cheetahs are often seen, as are packs of wild dogs. Zebras are numerous. nu-merous. So are blue wildebeests, which are found in great herds and are comparatively tame. Hippopotamuses Hippopota-muses may be seen in the rivers, and crocodiles inhabit even the small pools, so that swimming in the park is unsafe. Tsessebes, cousins of the harte-beest, harte-beest, are plentiful, but hartebeests themselves are becoming rare in Africa. While they are protected by law in the park, the natives beyond be-yond its boundaries have discovered that the animal's tail makes a fine fly swatter, and they have killed many hartebeests off, peddling the tails. |