THE ZOO.
GOOD CONDITIONS FOR ANIMALS. (To the Editor.) Many people object to the Zoo on the ground that it involves cruelty to the animate confined in it. How do we know that the animals are not happy? They are secure from attack and get their food regularly without any trouble of having to hunt for it. In their native haunts they are constantly exposed to attack from other animals stronger than themselves and they become food for other beasts. At the /Coo they have the interest of being fed on biscuits, nuts and ginger bread, and they see humans as interested friends and not as potential hunters in search of game, Monkeys of a ruminating and philosophic turn of mind can lind plenty of support for any Darwinian theories they may hold in watching the behaviour of visitors to their cages. The animals seem happy, and they certainly provide both amusement and instruction for visitors. Their native jungle is not the paradise some people seem to think, as it has its own dangers and privations, A FRIEND OF THE ZOO
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 160, 8 July 1932, Page 6
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181THE ZOO. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 160, 8 July 1932, Page 6
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