. Wild-animal celebrities. m all parts. 88 WILD ANIMAL CELEBRITIES One of the most interesting rhinocerosesin captivity, partly on account of his extremeyouth, and partly because of his manifold ad-ventures before and after his capture, isMesoviro, the baby rhinoceros in the NewYork Zoological Park. His captors gave himthis African name which means One who isfound by the way. Mesoviro was certainlyfound by the way, and the story of his cap-ture is quite exciting. An Austrian, named Fleisher, went huntingwith a small party southeast of the Lake Vic-toria Nyanza last July and one day saw afemale
. Wild-animal celebrities. m all parts. 88 WILD ANIMAL CELEBRITIES One of the most interesting rhinocerosesin captivity, partly on account of his extremeyouth, and partly because of his manifold ad-ventures before and after his capture, isMesoviro, the baby rhinoceros in the NewYork Zoological Park. His captors gave himthis African name which means One who isfound by the way. Mesoviro was certainlyfound by the way, and the story of his cap-ture is quite exciting. An Austrian, named Fleisher, went huntingwith a small party southeast of the Lake Vic-toria Nyanza last July and one day saw afemale rhinoceros with a very young had a very small party of nativeswith him and was not by any means wellequipped, but he determined to get the littlerhino calf if he died in the attempt. He knewfull well what an extremely valuable animalit would be if he could only get it to thecoast. But the African natives are terribly afraidof the rhinoceros and when they saw the Aus-trian actually pursuing the rhinoceros and. SOME GREAT PACHYDERMS 89 the calf every one of them fled, leavingFleisher alone. After much difficulty andone or two narrow escapes, Fleisher succeededin shooting the mother and, rushing forward,seized the baby rhinoceros. It was only afew weeks old, but so wonderfully strong andvigorous that it was almost impossible forone man to hold it. The Austrian, however, was not to bedaunted, but grasped the calf firmly roundthe neck, which was doubly difficult to holdon account of the thickness and slipperinessof its skin. The young rhinoceros promptlyran off, taking his captor with him, not let-ting any little things such as dragging himthrough the thick thorny bushes, with theirlong bide-a-wee thorns, stop him. Hekept this up briskly for half an hour, untilthe Austrians clothes were torn to ribbons;he was terribly torn and scratched and faintfrom exhaustion. But, in spite of all this,Fleisher held on desperately until at last thecalf was so exhausted that he had t
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