ANIMALS GLUM
Despair at Passing of Becky GRIM REAPER AT ZOO No sly jests are being passed in the monkey cages at the Zoological Park. There is despondency everywhere; the long, drawn features of the baboons are looking longer and more drawn than ever. A serious thing, but the Grim Reaper has been snooping only too effectively among the enclosures. All the bears are stunned by grief. Becky is dead. Becky, who, for 40 years or more, so the Zoo officials judge, has been all what an Isabelline bear should be. Yes, Becky has died of old age. Stil, 40 years is quite a good age for a bear. Old age must do its inevitable fell work, and the trouble is that it removes the well-known identities of the Zoo.
A parallel to the departure of Becky was in the demise of Bill, the large and venerable red kangaroo, not so many months ago.
The death of a young eland followed that of the baby sea-lion recently. The Grim Reaper has been at his objectionable work among the rhesus monkeys. Ten of them are dead. A common crane has been accidentally killed, and a white cockatoo and a piping crow have suffered from the irritable violence of cagefellows.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 921, 14 March 1930, Page 1
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208ANIMALS GLUM Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 921, 14 March 1930, Page 1
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