Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1937, Page 93

May 16, 1937 i the L1 / Buddy delighted in teasing Frieda by pull- ing her hair and then leaping to a bar over- head. But he never could remember that Frieda’s arms were extraordinarily long. She would stand just so much of Buddy’s tricks, and then, inexorably, one arm would shoot out, grab Buddy by any part of his anatomy that was handy, and thump him down on the straw in a squealing, protesting, *I-promise- not-to-do-it-again’’ heap. The *big cats” — leopards, tigers, lions — are amusing, especially when they are young and kitten-like. A few catnip balls scattered through the cages will send the whole Lion House into such an ecstacy that visitors think the animals have gone mad. One leopard had a regular routine of tricks that reminded one of a circus seal more than an inhabitant of the jungle. I had never put the giraffes down as curios- ity-stricken animals until we tried a new color of paint on the top of their stalls. The new shade so intrigued them that they licked a whole border off. We had to put up a wire guard. Our tree-climbing goats, the Himalayan Aahrs, like to play ‘‘Follow your leader.” One starts out and the others follow in line. That was all right — until one day the leader found that he could jump from a projecting boulder to freedom outside his fence. Inside ten minutes thirty tahrs were loose in the park. It was two days before we got them all back! Yes, there’s always something going on in the zoo. And the chances are that the animals whose antics amuse you are getting as much fun out of it as you are. THIS WEEK Photos by New York Zoological Society *‘OH, WHERE IS MY WANDER- ING TAHR TONIGHT?” THE ZOO KEEPER MAY ASK— AND THE STRANGE TREE- CLIMBING GOAT MAY BE ROAMING ABOUT OVERHEAD CURIOUS? YES, SIRI AND THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE ALL THAT GOES ON. THESE EIFFEL- TOWER ANIMALS CAN LOOK DOWN UPON ALL OTHERS IN THE ZOO BELOW: WHAT A JAG! CATNIP MAKES A YOUNG LEOPARD GET THAT WAY — AND HOW! AND VERY LIKELY THERE ARE SPOTS BEFORE ITS EYES