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Show War Shortages Put Rome Zoo on Stricter Diets ROME. War rationing has struck so heavily at Italian zoos that many of their carnivorous animals have become strict vegetarians. Wolves, hyenas, foxes and other animals which formerly lived on a raw meat diet now subsist on vegetables vege-tables and bread boiled into a mass with a bone tossed in for flavor. They appear to like it. Zookeepers said that, paradoxically, the more stupid anirr.a'.s are receiving the best food because they refuse to change their habits. The Force zoo's 37-year-oid orangutan orang-utan ?.!a rrto. v. hich formerly lived ' cn a diet of tar.c.r.a;, has r.'t tt-tcd |