Show zoo animals animals turn popular beliefs to fables an elephants memory is no longer than its tail hu humming aming birds so fragile that they seem winged insects are greedier 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 zoological park at brookfield consider ahe 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 sidell si n g the size of her offspring and the elephants memory legend endways says it is enduring tenacious do an elephant an injury tod today ay and he be will repay you in kind 15 years later brookfield Brookd eld 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 declared 1 I never neer 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 honey she was a baby half starved and wandering in the jungle he brought her here feeding her by bottle and she would would follow him everywhere when he left she tried to trumpet but when he came back eight months later she remember him at all he added 44 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 anly animal most of them despise mr bean says is man |