DENIZENS OF THE ZOO.
THEIR DAILY MENU. Nearly 50,000 dollars (£10,000) a year is the total butcher's grocer's, greengrocer’s and fishmonger’s bills for.the 300 living creatures in the New York Zoological Park (says the Scientific American). The mammals require daily 250 pounds of beef, 50 pounds of fish, 175 loaves of bread, 1 ton of hay, 15 bushels of grain, 100 heads of cabbage, 450 bananas, 150 apples, 50 oranges, and .25 quarts of milk. This is not all, but the full list would tire. Some of the; big snakes are content with a quick lunch every three or four weeks. A small pig is a delightful morsel, but is rather distending for the first three days. The rarer the animal the more expensive the diet. The short-lived duck-billed platypus used to consume over 4.50 dollars’ worth of meal worms and shrimps every day. Even th is did not keep away the grim reaper.. Everybody and everything eats in the Zoo, and there is never any talk of the high cost of provisions.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5505, 25 November 1929, Page 1
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173DENIZENS OF THE ZOO. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5505, 25 November 1929, Page 1
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