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There is no cause for you to be alarmed by the rapid rate of increase of the buffalo, for, although you are bound to care for and not to kill the specimen you get from the Park, you are not bound to preserve the life of any offspring to which your animal may give birth...
...okapi died in great agony. Excepting an elephant-hunter who had previously shot an okapi but failed to preserve the skin, all other Europeans have depended on the natives' clever trapping. An okapi was once brought to the Antwerp Zoological Gardens, but soon died. There is a mounted specimen in the American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan...
Last week, however, several leading editors were apparently outwitted by a press agent. A man, who signed himself "John Cromartie," wrote to the Director of the Bronx Zoo,'New York City, and suggested that the Zoo was incomplete without a specimen of the human race, and offered himself for exhibit in the monkey house. The New York Times printed this information and reported what the Zoo-Director said he had replied to the offer...
...Garnett, author of the just-published A Man in the Zoo.* By a strange coincidence Mr. Garnett hit upon the name John Cromartie also. And Mr. Cromartie had himself exhibited in a cage in the Royal Zoological Gardens, London, with this card on it: 'Homo Sapiens, MAN. This specimen, born in Scotland, was presented to the Society by John Cromartie, Esq. Visitors are requested not to irritate the man by personal remarks.' Oh, well, even Mr. Brisbane can't read everything. The press agent, if such he was, had succeeded in outwitting the combined intelligences...
...association's appeal begins by declaring that "the several common kinds of annoying mosquitoes have different habits and each may be most effectively dealt with by some particular method." It then offers the services of the association's sanitary experts in identifying the various types for anyone who forwards specimen mosquitoes to their laboratory...