. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Photograph by 11. Photograph by W. P. Dando, THE POLAR BEAK THAT HAS LATELY DIED Dando, LESUEUE'S WATEE-LIZARD. great pathological interest, since up to now the human subject only had been known to be so affected. " Sam," who had been just over eight years in the Gardens, was a very intelli- gent animal, and his habit of acquiring the umbrellas and sticks of the public has been much commented on in the press. It would never do for the Zoological Gardens to be long without so interesting and attractive
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Photograph by 11. Photograph by W. P. Dando, THE POLAR BEAK THAT HAS LATELY DIED Dando, LESUEUE'S WATEE-LIZARD. great pathological interest, since up to now the human subject only had been known to be so affected. " Sam," who had been just over eight years in the Gardens, was a very intelli- gent animal, and his habit of acquiring the umbrellas and sticks of the public has been much commented on in the press. It would never do for the Zoological Gardens to be long without so interesting and attractive an animal as the Polar bear, and it is therefore very satis- factory to find that "Sam's" successor entered upon its residence at the Gardens almost immediately, though it cannot be said quite to fill the place of the deceased, since it is at present a mere cub, as indeed was " Sam " when he first arrived from Spitzbergen. The new comer stands a fair chance of a long life in the Gardens, for polar bears do well in captivity, more than one of the Society's pre- vious specimens having lived in Eegent's Park for over thirty years. Cubs have also been pro- duced in the Gardens, so that it is evident the constitution of this typically Arctic animal is quite adaptable to our tem- perate 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 London
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