Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1901 — Plan Polar Animal Park. [ARTICLE]

Plan Polar Animal Park.

People In Norway are now planning to construct in the northerly district of their country an Immense national park In which animals from the polar regions are to be placed. Hen 1 Mohn, a scientist of Christiania, is the originator of this plan. He points out that there are some polar animals w hich cannot live in the ordinary zoological gardens of Europe, as the climatic conditions do not suit them, and he claims that the north of Norw’ay is the only part of Europe in which a suitable home can be arranged for such animals. He admits that some animals from the polar regions, such as bears, foxes, hares, seals, reindeers, Eskimo dogs and various species of birds, seem to thrive well enough in the zoological gardens in the north of Europe, but he claims that they would be much happier if allowed to rove over a large domain in the north of Norway, and, furthermore, he points out that all attempts which have yet been made to acclimatize the musk ox in zoological gardens have failed, and that only by placing several specimens of this interesting animal In a national park in Norway can all danger of its possible extermination be guarded against.