. Zoological Society bulletin . - were set first liberated they frequented the vicinity oftheir cage, and were daily fed by the keepers. Hav-ing noted the friendly relations between our visitorsand the gray squirrels, the members of the largerspecies have evidently made up their minds to makethemselves at home. They have scattered over thesouthern portion of the Park, and thus far have ap-peared to be quite friendly with the members of ourlarge colony of gray squirrels. 802 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY AN EXPERIMENT IN ACCLIMATIZATION. IN the Antelope House,—their temporaryquarters
. Zoological Society bulletin . - were set first liberated they frequented the vicinity oftheir cage, and were daily fed by the keepers. Hav-ing noted the friendly relations between our visitorsand the gray squirrels, the members of the largerspecies have evidently made up their minds to makethemselves at home. They have scattered over thesouthern portion of the Park, and thus far have ap-peared to be quite friendly with the members of ourlarge colony of gray squirrels. 802 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY AN EXPERIMENT IN ACCLIMATIZATION. IN the Antelope House,—their temporaryquarters for several years past,—our zebras have not bred freely, nor have any of thecolts lived to maturity. Being desirous ofbreeding zebras, this result was far from satis-factory. In course of time, our first pair of Grantzebras, (Equun burchelli granii), passed away;and with the purchase of a new pair, we decid-ed to carry out the experiment we had for sometime desired to make with a zebra species. Owing to tile nature of the Antelope House,all the inmates of that building are in winterhoused in an artificially warmed temperature is kept as low as the exigen-cies of two very valuable giraffes will permit;but for all that, the air lacks the crisp and in-vigorating quality of outdoors. Two years ago. a new and physically perfectpair of (irant zebras was installed in the largeFallow Deer Range, near the southeastern cor-ner of the Zoological Park, with the freedomof an eight-acre meadow. For s
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