Punch,  58 (1870), 146.

Studies at the Zoological Gardens  [1/2]

D M *

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery, Serial

Relevant illustrations:

wdct. [4]

Illustrators:

D M *

Subjects:

Zoological Gardens, Animal Behaviour, Zoology


    Represents some of strange behaviour of animals at the Zoological Society Gardens. These include a 'Terrific Encounter in the Aquarium between the Lobster and the Jack', an ostrich having its head locked into a hole at night because it is so used to hiding it in the sand during the day, an elephant with a trumpet bell on the end of its trunk (a 'Study of the Elephant in the Act of "Trumpetting"'), and a pig and an elephant, 'distant blood relations', 'turning up their noses at each other'.



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