The female rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens has had a
narrow escape of being drowned. Turned out on Wednesday week into the paddock during the frost, after snow had fallen on the frozen pond, the big creature, either blundering on the ice by mistake, or bent on a slide, broke the ice with her tremendous weight, and got in beneath it, and by her violent plunges soon broke up all the ice on the pond. The water was nine feet deep, the rhinoceros exhausted, and as it was very difficult to extricate the creature, she was in great danger of drowning. Mr. Bartlett took very prompt measures, letting the water off, getting the sloping sides of the pond strewed with gravel, to give a better foothold, and getting a rope round the creature's haunches, to aid her in her struggles to land. At last she was hoisted up, 7-
and then there was a rush to get out of the eneicsarci,.. .
feared she might ungratefully charge he: kresesvoCr A rhinoceros, however. behaveli ty-teeas4 wa, gierr...`eeru,d rather quieted *an. citli.e.t.st by her danger, and she soon +.4ok to her food as kindly as ever. She seems not to '..a, liable to apoplexy, or the sudden immersion in very cold water would have made an end of her, as it has of late of some much more valuable lives.
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