WITHSTANDING HEAT VERY WELL

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 81, 30 December 1935, Page 10

WITHSTANDING HEAT VERY WELL

Zoo Collection Thriving There have beeu no births or deaths at the Wellington Zoo lately, though another baby monkey is expected within the next few weeks. The recent arrivals—antelope, monkey and cygnets —are thriving and the remainder of the collection is standing up to the heat very well. Iu its padduck at the back the Highland bull is not taking much interest in anything, preferring to drowse the days away. But be i» very healthy. The zoo has been attracting a large number of visitors iu the past few weeks, and tihere b/tve been many comments about the improvements effected in the accommodation for the birds The cockatoo cage, recently finished, is a vast improvement upou the old home and the birds seem t>o have acquired a new freedom. When the cage to be built past the pbetisanlr) is completed the bird collection will be housed better than it lias ever been before. No seals have yet. been obtained, but the zoo has been promised some as soou as a vessel visits the Macquarrie Islands. When the seal pool, at present the habitation of a family of black swans, is ouee again the sporting ground of sea creatures the zoo cannot fail to regain much of it® former popularity, for the sea Hous were the greatest atlraetiou the zoo has bad.