| Show zoo animals turn popular beliefs to fables an elephants memory is no longer than its tail humming birds so fragile that they seem winged insects are greed greedier ier than pigs monkeys prefer popcorn to bananas the house cat is more cruel than a beast of the jungle in fact name any popular belief about animals and its a good two to one bet that it is wrong the conclusion of experts after actual observation at the chicago goolo zoological ical park at brookfield consider the elephant most maligned of the animal kingdom he is supposed to live the years of methuselah but instead lives only the three score and ten of man the female is said to breed at the age of 40 or 50 in reality she breeds at six and eight years her pregnancy is said to endure seven years as a matter of fact it is 19 months which is short enough considering si the size of her offspring and the elephants memory legend says it is enduring tenacious do an elephant an injury today and he will repay you in kind 15 years later brookfield officials say this is applesauce an elephants memory probably is not as good as that of other animals robert bean assistant diorec tor and curator of mammals marn mals de dared 1 I never heard anyone who worked with them say their memory amounted to anything take honey and bembo the baby elephants that christoph captured and brought here when he found lioney honey she was a baby half starved and wandering in the jungle he brought her here feeding her by bottle and she would follow him everywhere when he left she tried to trumpet but when n he came back eight months later she remember him at all he added was very disappointed elephants too are said to be afraid of mice the truth is mr bean says that they ignore them making the pachyderm house at brookfield the hardest in the park to free of mice elephants like cats however and allow them free access to the stalls the brinly animal most of them despise mr bean says is man |
