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Updated: May 19, 2025
Meleetas are brought into the room during the early morning or "fruit-meal" repast, and each answers to her name, and stands still to be milked. I had one much attached to me, who would come of her own accord, flutter her wings, and crouch at the top of my chair.
At the beginning of my reign the animals were very rare, and indeed nearly extinct, their only food being the nut of a tree then extremely scarce, for before the discovery of the application of electricity the tree had been burnt for use. By my order large tracts were planted with these trees, and there are now large enclosures in which herds of Meleetas are preserved.
I sometimes wore long flowing robes, and was often accompanied by this little creature when I strolled through my grounds. If it was at all damp she would hold up the hem of my garment with her mouth, that it might not get wet. When with me in my study, she would crouch down and remain quiet at my bidding. The Meleetas resent ill-treatment, though not spitefully.
The young are very precocious, and can soon be fed on nuts, and consequently taken from the mother, who remains in milk for a long time nearly a year and a half. Great interest is taken in the Meleetas, and they are treated with much gentleness, each having a small house to itself, lined with soft down, and furnished with a perch.
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