. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Zoo Notes 135 The Wanderoo Monkey here depicted is one of a pair which took up their quarters in the New Ape House, where lately resided the Silvery Gibbon, whose death we chronicled last month; but they have now moved to the Monkey House. Both animals are extremely shy, and it was only after many visits and a great amount of patience that the accompanying photograph was taken. The Wanderoo is about 25 inches in height, and with its tail about a yard long. Selous's An- TELOPE, as readers of Sir Harry John- ston's articles in
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Zoo Notes 135 The Wanderoo Monkey here depicted is one of a pair which took up their quarters in the New Ape House, where lately resided the Silvery Gibbon, whose death we chronicled last month; but they have now moved to the Monkey House. Both animals are extremely shy, and it was only after many visits and a great amount of patience that the accompanying photograph was taken. The Wanderoo is about 25 inches in height, and with its tail about a yard long. Selous's An- TELOPE, as readers of Sir Harry John- ston's articles in the last volume of Animal Life will know, is a water-dwelling but not exclu- sively aquatic bush-buck from the Upper Zam- besi and Lake The photograph herewith repro- duced is of a female speci- men at present caged near the Hippopotamus Pond. very much smaller. The " Boomer" is a formidable opponent to hounds, his great weight and power inclining him to fight rather than run, and when at bay he is dangerous to approach ; for, although mar- supials are credited with a low intelligence on the whole, the Kangaroo is quite clever enough to know that man is a more serious adversary than his dogs, and will leave these to attack him accordingly. The wallabies, m their general habits, are much the same as the large kangaroos, al- though they are of shorter and stouter make. There are numerous Ifhotograpli by If. P. Dando, WANDEROO The Two m aesupials on page 129 are familiar examples of the large kangaroos and the smaller forms known as wallabies. The former are really magnificent animals, the Great Kangaroo having been known to attain a length of about eight feet from nose to tail, and a weight of well over eleven stone in some instances. This, however, applies to the male or "Boomer" only, the female being The Herons and Egrets form other examples of natural and closely-allied groups differing mostly in size and build, al- though in this
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