Zoological Society bulletin (1913) (14760160711)

Identifier: zoologicalsociet55601newy (find matches)

Title: Zoological Society bulletin

Year: 1901 (1900s)

Authors: New York Zoological Society

Subjects: Zoology

Publisher: (New York) : New York Zoological Society

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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les believes that this is the mostsagacious member of any of the orders of the rep-tilia. This snake has been known to actually attack itskeepers. It is with great difficulty that its cage issafely inspected and cleaned. A special device wasdesigned for cleaning the glass of this cage. Strangelyenough, we have found there are two things thatcurb the fighting spirit of this snake: It is afraidof a small shovel or a broom. With these imple-ments at hand the keepers find it possible to drivethe fighting snake into a corner of its cage, and cleanthe glass by means of a long tube attached to thenozzle of the hose, the tube having a sponge attachedto it. We have many visitors who regularly cometo the reptile house on Sunday morning to see thiscannibalistic serpent devour its weekly meal. Fora day or so prior to the feeding time the cobra mayoften be seen reared up at the door of its cage, in-tently watching the keepers through a small panelof wire netting. 958 r ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN.

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INTERIOR OF THE NEW ZEBRA HOUSE THE NEW ZEBRA HOUSE. Without formality the new Zebra House wasthrown open to the public late in November.Our collection of wild equines is at last ex-hibited in a series, and thus brought togetherthey make a fine showing. The animals ex-hibited represent Grevys Zebra, Grants Zebra,Chapmans Zebra, the Mountain Zebra, Prze-walskys Wild Horse and the Persian Wild Ass.There are eleven examples in this collection.Just at this moment we lack the Kiang andSomali Wild Ass, but we expect to secure boththose species very shortly. The new building is of very satisfactory de-sign. It is long and broad, and its roof is lowenough to flood the stalls with light from gen-erous skylights of ribbed glass. The total lengthof the structure is one hundred and eighty feet.The length of the exhibition hall is one hun-dred and forty-two feet. The width of thepromenade in the exhibition hall is twelve feet.Twelve stalls, raised a foot from the floor, arefronted by panels of ele

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