SOUTH ISLAND CHAMOIS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25084, 16 January 1947, Page 6

SOUTH ISLAND CHAMOIS

SPECIMEN SENT TO AUCKLAND ZOO

TIGER CUBS OBTAINED FROM WELLINGTON ** The Press ” Special Service AUCKLAND, January 15. The first chamois to be exhibited io the Auckland Zoo arrived this week from Greymouth. For years the zoo has had hunters on the trail of the ‘chamois, but they are elusive creatures, surefooted and swift. Th® chamois now in the zoo is a femaleChamois were originally liberated B the Mount Cook region, but they haw spread considerably along the ma® t divide, and quite a colony has be® reported from Arthur’s Pass. They a*® a connecting link between the goat and the antelope. The curator of the zoo (Lieutenant* Colonel E. R. Sawer) has named tne young hippopotamus, now four week* old, Cetewayo. All male hippopotamuses at the zoo have been names after Zulu- chiefs, with one exception* and all the females named after Rider Haggard’s heroines. Until Cetewayo was bom there were onl/ two hippopotamuses, Nadi Lily, his mother, and Bella. S ra {V"' mother to the youngster, left at tne zoo. Lieutenant-Colonel SawW " negotiating with Australian zoos witn a view to exchanging Cetewayo, weaned, for another, unrelated young male. En Zed, a brother of Cetewayo, was sent to the Melbourne Zoo ® a “J last year, and the only other male, Dinizulu, their father, was killed May when he swallowed a solid .ruj* ber ball which a thoughtless. visitor had thrown into his mouth. . Two of the four tiger cubs born m December at the Wellington Zoo whicn were unofficially given the names or the four Maori members of Parliament after they were bom, are brought to Auckland in exchange I<?r other animals.