Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1915 — LIONS LIKED ELEPHANT MEAT [ARTICLE]

LIONS LIKED ELEPHANT MEAT

Animal* in New York Zoological Park Lived High on Flesh of Former Companion. ■ T Carnivorous' animals in the New iTork Zoological park had a feast since -Gunda, the pride of the Bronx elephant collection, turned “bad,” and was put to death. Nearly a ton and three-quarters of elephant meat was fed to them. -

Gunda’s hide and bones have been turned over to the taxidermists and osteologists of the American Museum of Natural History. Dr. William T. Hornaday, director of the xoological park, said: “The Zoological society saved 10% cents a pound, which is what we have to pay for beef. There is nothing unusual in the use of the flesh of an animal of the collection to feed the others.” He said that the flesh eaters of the park seemed to like the taste of elephant meat as well as that of beef.