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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 21, 1939.

Ellen Harvey, at the age of eighteen, is believed to be the youngest wild animal trainer in the world. At the moment she has a troupe of nine cheetahs.. Only one of them is tame and she has made a regular pet of this one, and even takes it for walks. Photo shows Elleh and her net cheetah, (bviously on the friendliest of terms.--

SNAKE THAT EATS EGGS

But Only New Laid Ones

ZOO'S STRANGE REPTILE

GAOL FOR POSE

AS DOCTOR

A man alleged to have posed as a doctor and to have examined a married woman, was sentenced, at Bristol Quarter Sessions re- cently to three months' hard lab-

An interesting, arrival at the Zoo our." is a South African snake that eats] = nothing but eggs, g

This quite harmless reptile is about

Accused for assaulting Mro.

a yard long, marked with black on a Olive Bertha Morgan, of Clive- MOST SENSATIONAL BARGAIN IN THEATRICAL HISTORY fawn background, and presents no terrace, Knowle, the man, William

unusual characters as regard its ex-Maher, thirty-eight, of York-ros FIRST TIME EVER SHOWN

terior.

Bedminster, Bristol, was said to Its interior, however, is verý re- IN ANY THEATRE-

markable, since the snake is almost have been with the Government toothless and bears on certain of its forces in Spain until last July. vertebrae a number of enamel-tipped|

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tooth-like projections.

Confronted with a hen's

egg, the

Mrs. Morgan said her husband

snake, though having a head no wider left her last year. Maher called at than a man's middle. finger, proceeds her house saying he had come to engulf it, a feat accomplished with on behalf of her husband. little effort, thanks to the

highly

elastic and disténsible nature of the skin and skull bones. ⠀

Distorted "Face"

"Got Nervous”

The egg, once safely engulfed by "He told me he was a medical the now much distorted "face," the man sent by a firm of solicitors snake raises the fore portion of the which my husband had consulted head and body at an angle suggestive

of an anti-aircraft gun. At this concerning divorce," said Mrs. Juncture the vertebral "teeth" proceed Morgan, who added that she got to do their work of cracking the shell nervous and "was shaking from and allowing the contents to trickle head to foot." gently into the smake's interor.. Afler an interval, the shell is pellad crumpled, but still recognisable.

The egg-eating snake has never must be in a terrible state. been known to vary this peculiar diet, and will starve to death rather than alter its very conservative regime.

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Maher said: "Your nerves

me feel your pulse.”

Let

Mrs. Morgan then described

Its sense on smell is very acute, and an egg, if not "new laid," is not give the examination made by Maher.

a second inspection.

Fatal Results

- Occasionally the snake's appetite

"The only reason I consented was

because I thought he was a doc-

for eggs leads to disaster, instances tor sent with the authority of having been recorded of this serpent solicitors," she said. having attempted to swallow china

nest-eggs with fatal results.

In pursuit of its one and only diet the

Maher, in evidence, denied the

snake sometimes makes itself dialled allegations, saying he was suff- by poultry keepers.

ering from nerves like Mrs. Mor-

At the same time it exercises a gan and he wished to try to help wholesome check upon the surplus rep her. tile population, since it devours the eggs of lizards and other snakes,

Another recent addition to the Rep- tile House is a so-called “flying frog.” This particular-species of frog hails from the Amuzon region. It can sur vive a sheer drop of 140 ft. by spread- |ing the wide membranes between its fingers and toes, thus volplaning safc- ly to the ground;

A number of North African locusts in the Insect House have been hatched from eggs laid in a depression in thiò cage's sandy floor.

The young are miniature replicas of the parents, but wingless and pale green instead of brown.

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