Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1921, Page 57

24, 1921. The tigress registers “mild toler- ance” for . . the camera The national bird. man This one was pre- g ’ sented to President Harding and then turned over to the This European brown bear has presented four litters of cubs to the Washington Zoo. The photograph, taken from inside the cage, shows the mother and her newest babies. Mr. Raccoon washing his food before he tastes it. He does not even trust his keeper at the Zoo. Thsi orang-utan, whose name in Borneo is “wild man of the woods,” is one of the finest young specimens in America and a favorite with children who visit the Zoo. These two cheetahs, or hunting leopards, in the Washington Zoo are the only two specimens in captivity in the United States. They are used in India and Africa to hunt antelopes and other fleet game. The cheetah is the speediest animal in the world in a short sprint. All zoos have lions.fi‘ but few of them have such fine specimens as this one in the Wash- ington Zoo. The “king of the jungle” is a favorite subject for the camera man. 9 “Sako,” éfi W ashington's S84 huge chimpan- zee, did not like the idea of pos- ing, but his curiosity got the better of Close-up of a Canadian lynx, whose disposi- tion is not in 9 accord with this likeness. The lynx is wild and almost untam- able. Arthur H. Fisher, naturalist and ex- pert camera man, who snapped the photographs on this page, with moving picture outfit in the cage- with ithe Another photo of the lynx. His favorite meal consists of a few pounds of oung elephants. yl-n-.u.g by ll’ Pridgeon, horse meat. xtaft photographer.