ZOO’S BEST HOPPERS
Some Algerian grasshoppers, just arrived at the London Zoo, have beaten all records of the genus for leaping. They seem to have sacrificed everything for this, as, though the body is barely an inch long, the hind legs are fully three inches. The newcomers are confined in ,si glass case, 2ft high, yet, when first put in, their horny heads were continually tapping on the roof. Unlike other grasshoppers, thjfr are carnivorous, feeding on raw meat and dead insects. And instead of living among grass they haunt damp caves. This species has never before been seen at the menagerie.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6849, 2 March 1929, Page 13
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102ZOO’S BEST HOPPERS Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6849, 2 March 1929, Page 13
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