MAKING THE LION ROAR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17345, 27 September 1924, Page 24

MAKING THE LION ROAR.

An attempt to broadcast the Zoo is to be made in a few week’s time in the children’s hour, about six o’clock in the evening. There will be no difficulty at all, 1 was told by the British Broadcasting Company (writes a representative of “ The Observer about broadcasting such creatures as the hyaena, jackass, sea-lions, and parrots. Throw the sea-lions a fish, or even show them one, an 1 they will roar finely. Clatter a bone in the cages of the hyaena and the jackass and they, too, will do their best for the listeners-in. The curious tiling about the hyaena is that he will laugh better when hungry than when lie is full. It is probably his delight in anticipating the pleasure to come. The parrots, too, will screech at any time; they will give no trouble at all. A microphone on a perambulator, like one of those tea wagons one sees nt railway stations, will he wheeled round from cage to cage and the various sounds transmitted to another part of the Zoo and thence to the company's headquarters on Savoy Hill. With the lion some little difficulty is foreseen. When he roars it is usually from ennui, or because his dinner hour is so long in coming. By six o’clock in the evening the last meal of the day will be finished, and his contented majesty will see no reason for roaring. There is a legend that the sight of a black man will make a lion roar. The 8.8. C., however* aro not sure about it, but they..may try the experiment with a black man if they can get one.