Rich County Reaper | 1937-01-29 | Page 4 | Dental Work at the Tokyo Zoo

dental woi h at the tokyo zoo AV V E MU K 22 77 j ia 4 Dal daitaro taro a hippopotamus at the zoo in tokyo japan who is very popular with the children shown as his long canine teeth which had troubled him were shortened recently it took twenty minutes to coax the hippo into position with his mouth open and forty five minutes to saw oil oft part of the two teeth this including delays while the attendants fed him cabbage his favorite dish to increase his patience