Down from the cool mountains land the green fields of Szechuen has come Mr. Floyd Tangier Smith, who has been doing research work there for the Field Museum of Natural Science in Chicago, and his presence in Shanghai accounts for the arrival at the Jessfield Zoo of some interesting new animals, Chief among. these additions to the local zoological garden are a pair of handsome. golden brown Pandas which are already establish-fed in a large cage near the section These pandas Will remind visitors of nothing so much as animated teddy-bears. Their round, light brown "heads, pointed noses, and straw-coloured marked contrast to their large, peering eyes, very - closely
popular children's toy. A. golden resemble the stuted heads of that brown body, legs of a darker shade, and a fluffy' tail decorated with nine rings, combine to. make these animals, already quite tame, among the most handsome in the 200.
Another new-comer remains to be ied. This is a small antelope-feature so young he can picked up and carried about, The Chinese name for him is "chidzu," and Mx, Smith thinks he is possibly fan eastern chamois, although his legs are lighter than those of the European chamois. He belongs to the antelope family, but ho has developed a taste for bananas during. his brief stay in Shanghai, and ho has learned to beg for them in approved canine style.
'A pair of small owls, a crow, and 4 large bird which may be a'kite, fare other additions made possible by Mr. Smith, Arriving in Shanghai two months. later than he had anticipated, the work having been hindered by ex-by other jes, Mr, Smith reports an expedition that suffered more sct~ backs than any other in which he has taken part.
The party collect~ fed, however, "about two thousand smaller mammals, so in the matter of results it was' highly successful. Some of them were unfortunately destroyed when the camp burned, Dut in spite of these losses the National Research Society of Nan-King has benefited by the acquisition of some valuable specimens, Mr. Smith is taking back with him to Chicago about a thousand specimens of these same smaller animals, Working with two taxidermists, a photographer, a newspaperman, and 'a young student, Mx. Smith to establish" headquarter Mouping, a place reached after a three-day trip by caravan to. Ya~ chow, three days from the point to which their steamer had t Kiating-fu itself is a journ days up the river. From they travelled back into the moun-districts. During the trip they had the opportunity to investigate all types of country—rocky sec tions, swampa, hill country, plains that the animals they took are highly representative group.
Not all the animals they secured belong to the group of small mam. mals, for there was the 600-pound "goat-antelope," two species of" the seral, the. ''chidzu," bed the oura, a ie pal Jelvet, several wild cats, the giant and smaller panda, and' the golden monkey. Of there, the takin, the panda, and the golden monkey the mast Interetting and. valuable from the point of view the Mr, Smith points life of an animal in a 200 is vastly more secure than it could possibly be in its native haunts, for the wild animal is never entirely free from apprehension. The deer, for ex+ ample, is preyed on by so many larger animals that it often is afraid to lower its head for a drink, This absolute freedom from apprehension' has already made itself noticeable in the ease of the pandas, who oft it second day in the zoo seemed quite contented, and even tame, to {those who watched them. taste for bamboo, they ha developed a fondness for a mixture fof bread and rice, a diet on vhich they give every indication of thriving.
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