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New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 74, 26 September 1874, Page 14

The owner of a popular menagerie tells a New York editor these facts about the cost of wild animals, and honv long they Jive ; Lions range in price from 1500dol. to 3000dol. ; African lions, being thelargest, sometimes cost above 4000dol. They live from Bto 20 years. The Bengal tiger lives from 15 to 18 years, and costs nearly as much as the lion. African elephants lange from 800dol. to 4000dol. and live to three-score years. Camels and Llamas are worth about 1200dol. ; the quagga, 2000dol. ; and monkeys, from 25d01. to lOOOJoI. Two men have died in a Liverpool hospital through mere fear of hydrophobia.