"BABY'S" FIVE GALLONS OF MILK.
Parisians are preoccupied not "so much with the political situation as with the question what to call their 881b baby (says the Chronicle's correspondent). This new denizen of the. city is a plump male hippopotamus,' born at the Jswdin des Plantes, or Zoological Gardens. Experience has shown that the hippopotamus's parents may kill ' their own offspring, so the baby has been placed in • a special compartment close to the giraffe. Its diet tttrTV* u ve gallons of milk daily which it absorbs through a rubber tub© from a large metal feeding-bottle, *
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14984, 4 May 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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