Guide to the nature treasures of New York city; American museum of natural history, New York aquarium, New York zoölogicl park and Botanical garden, Brooklyn museum, Botanic garden and Children's museum . southeast of the Reptile House is the Small MammalHouse, on the way to which the Wild Turkey Enclosure isobserved on the right, where the king of American gamebirds occupies a quarter of an acre of wood and under-growth. The open-air Puma and Lynx House immediately adjoinsthe Turkey Enclosure, and here the American puma ormountain lion paces restlessly to and fro. This animal,like the lynx, d
Guide to the nature treasures of New York city; American museum of natural history, New York aquarium, New York zoölogicl park and Botanical garden, Brooklyn museum, Botanic garden and Children's museum . southeast of the Reptile House is the Small MammalHouse, on the way to which the Wild Turkey Enclosure isobserved on the right, where the king of American gamebirds occupies a quarter of an acre of wood and under-growth. The open-air Puma and Lynx House immediately adjoinsthe Turkey Enclosure, and here the American puma ormountain lion paces restlessly to and fro. This animal,like the lynx, does not thrive in heated buildings. It isfound in Florida, Texas and most of the western states,as well as in Central and South America, but it is by nomeans as dangerous to man as rumor relates. Next door to the puma are two fine adult specimens ofthe Canadian lynx. The Small Mammal House, although not the most showy,is from an educational standpoint one of the most interest-ing installations in the Park, containing species represent-ing many different orders of mammals. The carnivorousmammals are extensively represented by members of thecat and dog families, including the rare and beautiful 159. WHITE-THROATED SAPAJOU MONKEYSCHIMPANZEESORANG-UTAN BARBARY LION CUBS 160 THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK ocelot, the African serval, the civet-cat, jackals, raccoonsand various wild dogs and foxes. Interesting rodents arethe South American capybara, largest of all living rodents,and the brilliant Malabar squirrel. Among the mammalsare the Australian wombat and the opossum; and the eden-tates, or toothless mammals, make a good showing with thegiant anteater, the curious banded armadillos and thesloths; perhaps the most interesting creature, the Echidna,or spiny anteater, belongs to the remarkable order of egg-laying mammals. This house contains about 200 cages, ofvaried type and size according to the occupant, but all withopen-air yards attached. Porcupines, badgers, the South American
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