. Beasts & men; being experiences for half a century among wild animals;. Animals. ACCLIMATISATION AND BREEDING 209 building, opens into a passage which turns abruptly and so ex- cludes the possibility of draughts. The doors can then be left wide open day and night, summer and winter, nor is any artificial heating arrangement required. The animals obtain the benefit, however, of what I may call a natural heating. Lions in the snow. arrangement. This is effected by allowing their dung to accumulate on the floor to the depth of about a foot. It is covered daily with fresh straw; but the warm
. Beasts & men; being experiences for half a century among wild animals;. Animals. ACCLIMATISATION AND BREEDING 209 building, opens into a passage which turns abruptly and so ex- cludes the possibility of draughts. The doors can then be left wide open day and night, summer and winter, nor is any artificial heating arrangement required. The animals obtain the benefit, however, of what I may call a natural heating. Lions in the snow. arrangement. This is effected by allowing their dung to accumulate on the floor to the depth of about a foot. It is covered daily with fresh straw; but the warmth given out by the process of decomposition keeps the building at a tempera- ture considerably higher than that which prevails outside. With the carnivores also, similar experiments have been undertaken ; and they have been attended with similar 14. 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 Hagenbeck, Carl, 1844-1913. London : Longmans
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