Life at
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共 20 段- To the naturalist, the most marked feature of the great trop
- Each of the little creatures, though so frail and so delicat
- IF the rational basis of legend and fable is worth exploring
- “_Ars longa, vita brevis_,” is, perhaps, a saying which woul
- The guillemots and puffins are some of the commonest of Engl
- The gardener-bird has not yet become established at the Zoo,
- Before visiting the cobras and the pythons, we made our way
- Our first visit was paid to “Jack,” the young red ourang-out
- Minor instances of panic are not uncommon, but it is not oft
- It seems a waste of the resources of nature to allow these f
- The frailness of the cages in which many of the animals arri
- Probably the most easily tamed of the tribe are the small Ma
- “On September 26 they were first seen to eat fish, and follo
- “Both my specimens,” he wrote, “were remarkable for good-tem
- The pre-eminence in this respect belongs without question to
- ONE of the most curious and unconsciously paradoxical claims
- HERE is an odd scene in the Jardin des Plantes at the end of
- Major Leonard has been engaged in this service in Afghanista
- But among all the larger creatures of the animal kingdom, it
- £23,855 has been the total cost of the Zoo for the year 1892