Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1918 — Animals Die on Substitutes. [ARTICLE]

Animals Die on Substitutes.

Animals in the zoo in Berlin have died' in large numbers recently, principally because the substitutes which they have been given instead of their accustomed food could not be digested sufficiently to sustain life. Among the species in which the mortality has been greatest are the giraffes, mandrills and chimpanzees. The health of the surviving animals is not good. According to Hamlyn’s Menagerie magazine, published in London, the Berlin Zoological society declared that while dates and bananas and other tropical fruits were unprocurable, the apes were fed on a kind of biscuit made of musty flour. The carnivota manage to live on scraps from the slaughter houses, but the animals requiring grain and seeds are not thriving well on the wild roots given them as substitutes.