Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — Vanishing Animals. [ARTICLE]

Vanishing Animals.

No one can read a book of travel in wild countries without having brought forcibly before him the grave fact that many of the most interesting forms on this earth are on the brink of extermination. The bison is practically gone as a wild animal from North America. The quagga is not now to be found in South Africa. The harmless and interesting ant-bear appears also to be going the way of the mammoth and the mastodon. The London Zoo cannot get a giraffe. The price of animals in the market has gone up to unprecedented figures. We carefully provide their native majesties of Africa with repeating rifles to accelerate the process of annihilation. Travellers warn us that the dismal slaughter proceeds with an ever accelerated pace so long as animals can be found to be killed. The destruction apparently must soon result in most of the larger wild animals becoming w extinct as the dodo. -