Show hippos are the zoos film stars hippos are the stars of animal film actors they command a salary of a day A definite wage scale for an animals just drawn up in hollywood gives the following figures hippos if well behaved are worth a day trained chimpanzees can collect 25 to trained deer 30 alligators pythons and camels 25 zebras 20 and buzzards and badgers 5 each per day dogs and cats can earn a salary in accordance with their ability but in their case there is always a possibility that they will strike the public fancy and thus develop into leading stars |