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grizzly73 bear, an elephant, and one or two birds. How rapidly and how extensively the collection has increased under his superintendence will best be seen by a reference to the numerous and interesting animals whose natural history forms the subject of the present work. By his spirited and judicious74 exertions75 the empty dens76 have been filled, and new ones have been constructed; and the whole of them being now kept constantly tenanted, the Menagerie affords a really interesting and attractive spectacle to the numerous visiters who are drawn77 thither78 either from motives of curiosity or by a love of science.
Such is a brief outline of the history up to the present period of the establishment known as the Tower Menagerie.[xvi] Of the animals contained in it during the summer of 1828, and of two others which had then recently died, the succeeding pages offer delineations, descriptions, and anecdotes79. Among so numerous a collection of inhabitants, of such dissimilar habits, and brought together into one spot from such distant and various climes, some changes have almost necessarily taken place even while our work has been passing through the press; yet so excellent is the management of Mr. Cops, especially as regards cleanliness, that essential security of animal health, that not a single death has occurred from disease, and one only from an accidental cause: the secretary bird, having incautiously introduced its long neck into the den of the hy?na, was deprived of it and of its head at one bite. Other removals are owing to the spirit of commerce. The Cape36 lion, the chetahs, the Thibet bear, and the deep-blue macaw, have passed into foreign hands, and are now on the continent of Europe. Two of the wolves and one of the Javanese civets have been transferred to the Zoological Society; and the white
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barbarian
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trophies
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brute
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vanquished
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dungeon
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auxiliaries
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surmounted
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subservient
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distinguished
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venerated
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uncouth
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devoted
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peculiarities
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corrupt
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perversions
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fables
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herds
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| 兽群( herd的名词复数 ); 牧群; 人群; 群众 | |
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awakened
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dormant
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| adj.暂停活动的;休眠的;潜伏的 | |
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astonishment
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investigation
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conqueror
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victorious
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zoology
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gloss
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leopard
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leopards
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motives
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ascertain
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ferocious
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consul
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brutal
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derives
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monstrous
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compilation
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teems
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naturalists
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stationary
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lapse
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lamentable
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eloquent
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| adj.雄辩的,口才流利的;明白显示出的 | |
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worthy
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follower
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pretensions
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prerogative
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zoologist
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reigns
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muzzle
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writ
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lieutenant
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constable
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solely
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allusion
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grizzly
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judicious
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anecdotes
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antelope
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delightful
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fidelity
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imperative
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scrupulous
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undertaking
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gratitude
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specimen
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antiquities
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