ANTICS OF A ZOO BABY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 14, 17 January 1931, Page 2 (Supplement)

ANTICS OF A ZOO BABY.

In Easter last year Chang was a great attraction at the Zoo, for he was the first baby camel to be born in the menagerie for many years, and his mother, Daisy, was proudly introducing her offspring to the public.

This year, although he is no longer a for he lias grown so well that ho is half the height of his parents, Chang has learned to carry email admirers on his back.

Ever since he was born Chang has been a pet. His mother, unlike many Zoo mothers, believed in allowing her baby to make friends with visitors, with the result that the little camel soon grew trusting and amiable. When he was six months old he was separated from hie mother; and though they both cried for each other for five days and nights they recovered from their loss, "and Chang began to interest himself in his human friends.

He learned to shake hands by lifting his right foreleg, and to heg for biscuits and fruit by raising first one leg and then the other. He became quite playful. Whenever the keeper entered his den to sweep Chang would first remove the man's cap and then grab the broom.

The young camel still performs these amusing little tricks, but after celebrating his first birthdky, on March 25, he found another way of winning the affection of the public, for he had become strong enough to carry two children on hie back.

Teaching him to Carry a passenger was not difficult; and he made no objection .when the keeper placed a bit in his niouth. Now Chang gives rides to small children every-morning.