PLAYING WITH ANIMALS

Evening Star, Issue 18534, 17 January 1924, Page 2

PLAYING WITH ANIMALS

WOMAN DOMINATION AT THE ZOO, In a lecture to the Royal Photographic Society at its annual exhibition in Russell square, Mr J. E. Saunders said the a remarkable series of kinema photographs had just been taken in tho Zoo by tho Zoological Society’s otlicial kiuematographora, showing a young woman, Miss Gladys Callow, F.Z.S., playing with, some strange !>elSj and demonstrating her unusual talent for making friends of them The pictures taken included Miss Callow sitting on tho back of the three-ton hippopotamus. Bob, and feeding his mate, Joan, while sitting there; making Winnie, a nine-year-old Canadian bear, take figs with its Foeth from her lips; picking up a Pondicherry vulture, holding _ it in her arms, placing it feet upwards in her lap, and then tickling its chest; getting a "king vulture to untie her bootlaces, and then to spring unaided into her lap and settle down there; playing with a wolf till it pulls her hair down with its_ jaws and paws; giving Rex, the Zoo’s biggest African leopard, a large bone through the bars of bis cage, ami then wriggling_ it out of his teeth as he begins to gnaw it; and "oing into a cage with four golden eagles, and getting the'' biggest, “ Mac,* 1 to swoop down from a high perch and’ take, while flying, piece of rabbit from her fingers. Mr Saunders added that perhaps one thins which helped Miss Callow was that many of the animals in the Zoo were accustomed to female domination. It was a fact, lie said, that (■'•cry ’ion in (he Zoo was henpecked by his lioness; even tho big hippopotamus was under his wife’s thumb; and worse still was the case of Satan, tho Prince of Wales’s black leopard, whoso domineering wife, Maud, might be said literally to give Satan now and then a “devil of a time.’’