Show CAGED BEASTS IN DARK FEEl URGE TO KILL KIU Night Revives Instinct ol oj Chase Within Cap Cap- Captive Captive Captive tive Animals BORED IN DJ DAYTIME Keeper Tells of Weird Sensation of Being Stalked ii LONDO LONDON May Dy By B 6 By The As- As As Associated sedated Press Wild animals Is II captivity live at night an Imaginative life entirely different fro I theIr dull day hours when the curious file lie by In front or of o theIr thelE cages according to It R T superintendent of or the tho zoological of London who Is aboul to retire after many years of ser sr service vice Ice Iee At night the Inborn habIts habit Of the jungle junie h show w themselves In striking fashion and the beasts throw off the sleepy veneer of In Indifference difference they seem to adopt when humans stand In front of ot their en- en enclosures enclosures en enclosures closures and speculate upon what might happen were the animals suddenly given their liberty of the differences he has hAIl noticed In the behaviour ol 01 wild beasts by day and night Mi- Mi Po ock says gays Jt if T you go Into the lions hou house e during the day you are nearly al- al al always ways us Impressed by the tha peaceful ay ay In which the animals retard regard you But visit them In the dark darkness nes ness and Instantly yoi you are aware awara or r the change STE rHY J fOTIO MOTIONS S As It if by magic their Instincts to hunt and to kill kilt have returned f I Nothing Is more weird than then to walk walk past pact the cago cage of a a lion or a 8 tiger and then to turn around To your astonishment ou see that the tho ani- ani animal aol ani animal mat mal as you went by has been st you just as If he were still living In natural surroundings On the Instant you turn your head he drops flat on the floor ot of the cage Hi His great litho lIthe body remains perte perfectly still as he liei there Intently wa watching you OU I do clo donot donot not think wild animals like theme thee Or eser lose their Instincts Instinct no mat mat- matter mattel matter ter tel low how ow long they are kept In eap- eap cap th cap It- It And at night when all ii 11 still and there are none nono of the die die- dis distractions tractions of ot the daylight they can Ih use e again In the world from we have brou brought ht them BOOS OS rS DEPRESSING G In a II climate like that of Lon Lon- London Lon London don says Mr animals In captivity t mu-t always as be bo It a source of anxiety and the wonder to me 1 Is 11 that they live so healthily Most people for some somo reason ap- ap appear ap appear pear to think that animals should ne neer er be ill til but that of course I Ii absurd My Mv experience Is that the weather affects them to precIsely the samo same extent that It does hu- hu human human hu human man beings Fog pro proves most de- de depres depressing de depressing pres pressing lnA to all the zoo Inhabitants while dry sunny gunny weather cheer them doubted un and their happiness Is un- un undoubted un undoubted J J MORE When you OU see a big lot of ot death In the newspapers you will note precisely the same mor- mor mor rate at tho the roe oo Our birds with a II covering of ot feathers are on the tho whole very TV erv much abler to withstand cold and exposure than protected by hair You can keep tropical parrots In the open elI all the year ear round with comparative comparative tive live ease and although you can cando cando cando do the same with a II good many tropical animals animal covered with hair you are never nver sure thit what ap- ap ap ap plies to ta one of or the will apply quay y well to ta others Mr Mi- does not nat belles believe e that Wild animals ever make good pt pets Xo No wild animals ls In mv my opInion he so v car be bo relied on as a apt apet pct pt Man already has ha domesticated I all that can be domesticated |