Eureka Reporter | 1904-03-25 | Page 5 | Oddity of Animal Life

ODDITY OF ANIMAL LIFE remarkable blue gnu on exhibition at new york an exceedingly interesting animal now on exhibition at the zoological park in new york Is the new blue gnu it would be hard to imagine a more fantastic looking animal it suggests to one coming unexpectedly upon it and seeing it for the first time a sort of impossible dream creature a cross perhaps between a 1 buffalo and a nightmare to the buffalo 1 elong the neck and the horns but the till and tie hn 1 q barters are those of a 1 orse the legs are a dars legs but the heal resembles that of no other allvin ani mal tho specimen at the park came from south aar where the ranges fion orange river acri to victoria nyanza I 1 here seems to be if il that tha wild grotesqueness of th appear ance of the gnu is a Uton of aa ture to protect the animal when frightened or disturbed these remarkable antelopes go through a series of strange evolutions and ex postures in order to en nance as much as possible the oddity and hideousness of their app barance and ts frighten away intruders acl Amerl car