. Popular official guide to the New York Zoological Park. New York Zoological Park. NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAI. PARK. 53. BACTRIAN CAMELS. J§*%>i only to be devoured by the wolves which infest the Park. Coyotes have been seen to run down and kill antelope within sight of the town of Gardiner. Unfortunately, the Prong-Horned Antelope is not a liardy animal. The kids are very difficult to rear; they are at all times easily hurt by accident, and even in a state of nature this species suffers more severely in winter than any other North American ruminant. Often the herds drift helplessly before the bl
. Popular official guide to the New York Zoological Park. New York Zoological Park. NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAI. PARK. 53. BACTRIAN CAMELS. J§*%>i only to be devoured by the wolves which infest the Park. Coyotes have been seen to run down and kill antelope within sight of the town of Gardiner. Unfortunately, the Prong-Horned Antelope is not a liardy animal. The kids are very difficult to rear; they are at all times easily hurt by accident, and even in a state of nature this species suffers more severely in winter than any other North American ruminant. Often the herds drift helplessly before the blizzards, with mimerous deaths from freezing and starvation, and in spring the survivors come out thin and weak. THE CAMEL HOUSE, No. 39. Speaking in a collective sense, the Camel is much more than an ordinary animal unit in a zoological park. On the high plains of central and southwestern Asia, and through- out the arid regions of Africa, it is an institution. Without it, many portions of the Old World would be uninhabitable by man. Take either Dromedary or Bactrian Camel, and it is a sad-eyed, ungainlj^, slow-moving creature, full of plaints and objections; but remember that it goes so far back to- ward the foundations of man's dynasty, that beside it the oldest American history seems but a record of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York Zoological Park; Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937; New York Zoological Society. New York New York Zoological Society
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