ERROR BRINGS DEATH
Mistaken identity is. not a common error at the London Zoo; but five red guinea-pigs recently came to a sudden end because, a new zoo-helper did not realise that guinea-pigs have no tails. Some time previously the menagerie was 'presented with seven bluo guineapigs and five red guinea-pigs/which were housed in cages next door to polecats and stoats. Tho new helper one morning informed the head-keeper: that he had found one of the guinea-pigs on the ground and had picked it up and returned it to its housemates. But, alasl when the headkeeper went ■to . make sure that all was,well he founa that the five red guinea-pigs were dead, for a polecat had been introduced into their home. How the helper managed to pick up a polecat without being badly bitten is a mystery, for only in very skilled hands are these aggressive little carnivores at all manageable.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 50, 28 February 1934, Page 5
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151ERROR BRINGS DEATH Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 50, 28 February 1934, Page 5
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