ZOO FATALITIES
O.C. SYDNEY, January 14. Within a week two camels and three baby jaguars have died at Sydney's Taronga Park Zoo. The camels died after swallowing a quantity of tacks, nails, and metal shavings, and the jaguars from ptomaine poisoning caused by eating tamed meat, A postmortem revealed that the camels had also swallowed copper, charcoal, and pieces of stone. More, nails, a small bolt, and metal shavings were found in their enclosure.
The jaguar cubs were three months old. The zoo authorities are satisfied that they died from mea.t tainted by the hot weather.
A proposal to vjse the garbage ipom an air station for fattening 13QQ pigs a year was briefly discussed by the Canterbury District Pig Council on Monday, states "The Press." The supervisor (Mr, H. W, Mclntosh) said he had made a report on the project to the Air Department some weeks ago, but he had .heard nothing further about it. For some time 1000 gallons of garbage a day had been buried. The pigs this food was capable of produc? ing would provide 4000 men with 20? of pork a week.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 21, 26 January 1944, Page 4
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187ZOO FATALITIES Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 21, 26 January 1944, Page 4
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