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Show BIG CIRCUS HAS A GREAT ZOO The expense of maintaining a great collection of wild animals reaches an amount of money far .n excess of what most people imagine. The difficulty of properly caring for these animals solved only after years of experience. There Is no feature of a big circus that represents such a tremendous outlay of money or Involves a greater risk of loss. That part of the Barnum and Bailey Bail-ey Clrcu6 which 16 contained within the four walls of the animal tent 16 valued at more than $1,000,000 The first cost of sending hunting expeditions expedi-tions Into the jungles of Africa, Asia and South America is small compared with that which follows when the animals ani-mals are secured. Men must be employed em-ployed who have studied their ways and habits. Each specimen must be scientifically cared for. Food that will nourish one creature will kill another. Giraffes are the hardest to care for. It is necessary to feed them now and then on a peculiar moss, which grows only on a tree found in the forest belt that hugs the African equator line. It is shipped to the circus In bales. Giraffes are fast disappearing from the face of the earth. In a very short time they will be extinct. No amount of money could buy the four fine specimens spec-imens with this show. In the fam.ly Is to be found the tallest giraffe ever captured. From Its front hoofs to Its ears it measures twenty-two feet. It cost the management $14,000, yet in value it 16 but a circumstances to the long necked little chap at Its slde.nam-ed slde.nam-ed Bumbeeno, and just reaching to its mother's knee. Bumbeeno was born last 6pring in the winter quarters of the show at Bridgeport. Coun. It 13 the second time in history that the stork ever visited tho giraffe pen of a zoo of captives Over fifty years ago in London Lon-don a similar happy event occurred, but the baby lived but a day. Scientists Scien-tists were puzzled They had for a century maintained that giraffes would not breed In captivity. Fortunes were spent after that by scientific animal breeders to induce a repetition of this exception of Nature's rule. It was in vain. Lone ago attempts of the kind were abandoned Bumbeeno came as a surprise. He was found early one morning by the keepers. They scarcely believed their eyes. He Is the first and only giraffe baby ever seen In captivity, and ho is worth his weight In gold Another rare specimen in the nam nm and Bailey zoo is a hippopotamus weicrhlncr five tons. Tt taken six biff Percherons to pull Its den over a smooth pavement. Here, also, is found the only double-'horned rhlnorcctros In captivity. A rlHe ball would flatten flat-ten against his thick skin There are thirty Siherlan camels, forty Indian and African elephants and several beautiful zebras from the breeding farm of King Menelfk of Abyssinia. India sends a herd of sacred cattle and macmlflcent lions, tigers and leopards. leop-ards. From Thibet has rome some fine specimens of the yak family, both black and white. There are llamas, lebns, nylghauR. ibexes, gnus, zebus, vlak vaarks, porcupines, tapirs, ant-eaters, ant-eaters, ostriches, ernues. kangaroos, hyenas, horned horses, chimpanzees, orangoutangs, water buffalo, caribous, seals, sealions, pecnrles, wart hoes and all varieties of the deer, monkey, bear and cat tribes. An Interesting department In the menagerie Is occupied by the animal babies of the zoo. It Is filled with tiny youngsters at the playful age. The children find great amusement in wateblng them. At. Offden. Wednesday, Aug 1ft. |