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Show Fancy Appetites The motives for the food fancies of certain birds and beasts are undiscoverable. At the London zoo it has been found that humming birds can be lured to eat simply by coloring the receptacles containing con-taining their food red. In the reptile-house, the Iguana lizard has a positive mania for yellow or orange fruit, flowers or vegetables, while the giant lizard, the so-called Komodo dragon, will select a while fowl, pigeon or rabbit rab-bit to one of a grey, brown or black hue. |