It had been suggested to Mr. Smith that "these were Mississippi alligators, which, It was supposed, had migrated to Asia when at some time far back it was joined to the Amer-tean continent." Mr. Smith, however, emphatically denied the suggestion, and said that at this period in the? distant past such things as alligators would not have been in' existence.
After depositing the reptiles in the local Zoo, Mr. Smith expects to take them back to the United States on his return, and there is no doubt that they will' be the subject of a great The Yangtze alligators on account of the extremely cold temperatures fo which they are subjected, bury, themselves in a thick layer of mud during the winter months, differing in this respect from their counter= parts in the American Continent, where the warm weather does not Recessitate such a procedure. The alligators will probably be buried in mud during the coming wint order to keep them alive, and Mr. Smith considers that they have quite reasonable chance of survival. These alligators inhabit a region farther "north than any others of their species.
The Homely Pangolin Turning to the question of the homely pangolin, which seems a topical one. just at present. Me. Smith said that the famous specimen at the Royal Asiatic Society headquarters had been Kept alive so far odrn{ut tear ashe recalled the fate yellow worms, He wiped sway 2
Which befell hig own" pangiis short ume aga. AMer feeding mille and chapped mest, the eteature tinaly "passed "away. Tt ts. believed that no one has been successful Keeping a pangolin live while captivity.
Mr, Smith concluded the into: witha very choice please of Biol Information, with fo actual bearing fon. alligators or, for that. matter, angelins. Tt as found impossible, fedecinre, to keep' penguins alive the remarkable da covery that the eaplivity until some one" mods
ential clement. in their diet Todino, "which penguin absorb through the seaweed which "forme one of their principal foods. After being supplied adequately with iod-Me, penguins in captivity were found Was the man so ingenious s to Vind oinriver Tt was not cacowered who
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