Show ZOO ANIMALS ARE HAPPY THEY I HAVE VE TO FIGHT OR FLEE By DAVID DIETZ DIETZE E NE Ice Sen-Ice Writer Dont Don't pity the animals In its the zoo Dont Don't say Bay Poor things locked up In cages caes when the they might be b running around enjoying life lite In tho the jun jungles les of oC Africa Pity the animals who are run run- running run running ning fling wild lid In the jungles and for tor- for forests ests eats The animal In the zoo Is 15 the only happy animal today William You have the tho word ord of ot Dr Wil- Wil Wil liam T Hornaday tort fort for 30 years fears the tho NewYork director of oC the Bronx Zoo Nel ew York tor for that The Tha safest and happiest ani- ani ant ani animal mal mill today Is the animal In the thc zoo Dr Hornaday sas sa's says In the zoo he Is well fed ted and comfort comfort- comfortably comfortably ably ho housed S d Hes He's as Comfortable In Inter n Inter as IlS In summer MUST FIGHT I The animal In the open has to tight fight tor for hi his life lite continuously HI He must fight tight other animals nature and man smaller He lIe must hunt and kill smal smal- ler lee animals animal tor for his own food lie lIo must larger keep out of ot the way of ot larg lang larger langer er animals or become food him him- himself himself self He runs the risk of ot frees freez ing freezing In to death In winter or dying of oC thirst in a drought He lie must evade hunters with powered high-powered rifles and all th the other aids of o the tho mod mod- modem modern em ern game seeker In fact tact Dr DrI Hornaday believes that unless the number of II a hunter Is allowed to kill Is re- re reduced and unless more and bigger big ger animal sanctuaries are established throughout the world the next 25 II 5 years yeara will see the disappearance of ot all wild animal life lite outside of oC zoos WORK FOR LAWS It Is alarming to see the rate at which wild animal life Ufa Is dis disappearing dis- dis disappearing appearing Hornaday says I 1 Intend to devote ote most of ot my time from now on working for tor the establishment of ot moro more sanctuaries and zoos and for tor the tho passage of more stringent game laws Hornaday has been called In as a consulting expert for tor for the zoo too In Inthe Inthe inthe the city of ot Cleveland He has ha just completed plans tor for an en- en enlarged en enlarged zoo there Thirty years ears at the Bronx Zoo have convinced Hornaday that animals think and reason and pos pea possess pos possess sess seas a language of oC their own In time lime I learned to distin- distin distinguish the meaning ot of many ani- ani animal animal ani animal mal sounds Hornaday says One day I heard a call from Crom one of the tho bear pits It was Vas a sound which I had learned was a dIstress call celL Investigation proved gotten that one of ot the bear cubs had got got- got ten his paw between the bars bart and an couldn't release o it it The TIle cub hold held perfectly still aUlI while keepers his it paw v He Ha realized that they were helping him and made mado maderio mad no rio attempt to Interfere with their efforts We e had a chimpanzee which used to wear a sweater In cold weather Hed He'd put it on himself and tako take It oft off again If it he became too warm One da day he ho saw a banana lying outside his cage caga just beyond the reach roach ot of his paw lie He took off oct his sweater and used It to sweep the banana within the theran's range rans of oC his paw Wo We 03 tried other other- experiments experiment T I ec It tsP i 4 t t i i xi r K 4 l a p j f e d e v Dr Br William T with chimpanzees es at the zoo We f put 0 a banana a long pipe which was too small in irs diameter to allow th Ibo animal to put hi his paw Into It Then we left lert a 0 a bam barn bamboo bamboo boo pole pola lying In the cage The Tho chimpanzee took the tha pole pois an and used It to poke the banana out 0 of the tho pipe Thero There are arc countless In the wild lIfo life of ot nature that show that animals think Take the ox musk-ox for tor example When a herd of oxen musk-oxen is at attacked by wolves olves the oxen form torm a circle with the tha young ones at the cen- cen center cen center ter of oC It It They make the circle ao 80 that their bodies touch Then they lower their heads so ao that the wolves find themselves faced with witha witha II a closed circle of ot sharp born horns It If a wolf attacks an ox will wili charge him But only for tor i short abort distance probably 20 or 30 lid feet teet Immediately he backs Into the circle again so that the protective ring I Is not broken |