QUEER ZOO FRIENDS

Evening Star, Issue 18138, 30 November 1922, Page 10

QUEER ZOO FRIENDS

Declared to to unique in zoological history is too friendship that exists between a tigress and a peacock to Belle Vue Gardena, Manchester. Bird and 1 beast are now inseparable. They occupy the same cage, drink from tile same water tank, and! occasionally the peacock will stretch over and take a piece of toe tigress’s food while she k Vatin g. He walks over her back while she sleeps, and pulls at her whiskers without provoking a solitary snarl. One of the proprietors of the gardens, "Mr George Jennlsou, stated! that more than 3,000 years of zoological history had revealed no parallel to such a friendship. . “It is toe mast wonderful sight I have ever seen,” he added, “ and I am doubtful whether such a thing has ever occurred before.” Mr Jennkon remarked that after studying toe psychology of the tigress, which he calls Kitty, and of Lucifer, as he has 'named the peacock, he decided to put them together, his primary object being to see whether the fiencock showed any fear of tho tigress. Ha added: “In India the peacock marked the trail of the tiger, just as in England)' the magpie marks the trail of toe fox. But I found no fear on the part of the peacock, and while the tigress at first did not. seem to understand her new male, they are, now jjooct, •^oaaoftnwaii,’’. " '