Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1903 — They Can Smell Their Neighbors [ARTICLE]

They Can Smell Their Neighbors

To those who are loitering on the circus ground when the magnificent parade of the Great Wallace Show returns to the tents in this city on Saturday July 25th, it may appear that the massive cages and dens of animals are plaoed indiscriminately in the menagerie tent, but such is~Uot the oase. It is absolutely necessary for the peaoe of the families represented that the arrangement of the animals be the same day after day. If the zebra case is the first, the monkey case next, the polar bear next, tbe seals next, the hippopotamus next, the ocelot next, the tigers next and so on down one side of tbe mammoth menagerie tent and back on one day the same arrangement is neoeseary after that. The ends of the oagee are closed so that the animals cannot see their neighbors but they cm smell them Any change of order among the dens will promptly start a “rough house.” When the Great Wallace Show exhibits in Rensselaer Saturday J uly 25th, the cirous goer oan obtain much interesting information by observing the numerous perfect specimens of the animal kingdom.