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The Daily Dispatch: January 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], A lion's Love for a Black Tigress. (search)
A lion's Love for a Black Tigress. --The Philadelphia North American records the following singular case: "In one compartment of the cage in which the animals perform at Van Amburgh's beautiful menagerie, in Chestnut street, is a huge tawny Asiatic lion. His room-mate is a black female tiger. The tiger is small, compared to the regal lion, but is highly valued as a zoo logical curiosity, and the only specimen of the black tiger in this country. She was purchased by Mr. Van AmburgMr. Van Amburgh some two years ago, and has lived with the lion ever since.--The attachment between the two is something remarkable. When other animals are in the same cage, and any affront is offered to the little tiger, she runs under the belly of the lion, and woe be to the animal that dares approach her. No matter how hungry he may be, the lion never touches his share of their daily meat until his little chum has selected her share, and even this he never entirely consumes until certain that she has eno
The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], Interesting Chapter on circus elephants. (search)
all, and brought to this country. Afterward he went to England again with Mr. Van Amburgh, was exhibited in his menagerie throughout Great Britain, and then played sly to display his accomplishments. He returned to the United States with Mr. Van Amburgh in '45, and subsequently traveled in all parts of the Union. He died downedingly well-trained elephant, and is also now included in the collection of Van Amburgh & Co. He is the "heavy man" among the artists of the menagerie company. Therong. If they are insulted, however, they will resent it Last summer, while Van Amburgh's establishment was making a procession through the streets of Boston, a Hit an opportunity. They will sometimes take a dislike to individuals. While Van Amburgh was traveling in England, there was a musician in the who was in the habit led on ale, and finished by smashing up things generally. That spree cost Mr. Van Amburgh a very heavy sum in the way of damages. Elephants are extremely timid in