Children Excited When Shown Rare Animals Excitement was caused on Dec. 28 among an audience of children at the Royal Institution.—Albemarle-street, W., when a lion cub from the London Zoo was brought into the lecture hall. The occasion was the first of Dr. Julian Huxley's four Christmas lectures on "Rare Animals," the "Daily Telegraph and Morning Posi,"
The children sat in breathless silence. They had been warned by Dr. Huxley not to applaud, because the beast is of nervous temperament, but they clapped delightedly after he had gone out again, The cub, whose name is Max, did not enjoy his visit. He was frightened of the crowd and the spotlight. He sprawled on the ground and had to be helped out of the room by his harness and his tail.
The cub was exhibited so that Children could see the faint spots common to all baby lions and probably a survival from times when their ancestors lived in forests and were spotted, Dr. Huxley also brought some pure white gophers, rodents from Alberta, which gave shrill cries like birds throughout the lecture, a black kite that rustled its wings, a sub-species of house mice from the Faro Islands, and a spiny ant-eater, half mammal and half reptile, which hissed loudly as the keeper held it up by its claws.
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