Animals: Air Zoo

For the benefit of rustics, shut-ins, timid people, lazy people, busy people, people sensitive to smells, National Broadcasting Co. last week put a zoo on the air—first time in the U. S. The microphone was carried about the cages in Bronx Zoölogical Park in New York.

Jet, a black chimpanzee, shook the bars of his cage. Irritated, a lion roared into the instrument. Sea lions, excited with fish, grunted and barked. Monkeys chattered, birds screeched, an elephant snorted, a tiger growled, all very obligingly. But Peter, a large hippopotamus, plunged to the...

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