PLAYING WITH A WOLF.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4639, 17 December 1923, Page 4

PLAYING WITH A WOLF.

WOMAN’S SECRET POWER, CHARM OVER ANIMALS. Lecturing at the Royal Photographic Society exhibition in Russell Square, Bloomsbury, Mr J. E. Saunders said that a remgrkable series: of kinema photographs had just been taken at the London Zoo showing a young woman, Miss Gladys Callow., a Fellow of the Zoological Society, playing with some strange pets. Miss Callow, he said,, was an animal lover whose hobby it was to make friends of animals in the zoo. The pictures included Miss Callow making Winnie, a nine-year-old Canadian bear, take figs with the teeth from her lips ; picking up a Pondicherry vulture, holding it in her arms, placing it fee.t upwards in her lap, and then tickling its chest; getting i king vulture to untie her bootlaces, and then to spring unaided into her lap and settle down there; playing with a wolf till it pulls her hair down with its: jaWs and paws ; giving Rex, the Zoo’s biggest African leopard, a large bone through the bars of his cage and then wriggling it, out of his teeth as he begins to gnaw it; going into a cage with four golden eagles and getting the biggest “ Mac ” to swoop'down from' a'high perch and take, while flying, a piece of rabbit from hens.finger.s.

Perhaps the fact that many of the animals were accustomed to female domination helped 1 her 1 to do these things, he added. It was a fact that every Hon in the zoo was henpecked by his lioness.