If any progeny were born, the winter frosts must have destroyed it, and the same fate awaited the monstrous serpents which had been collected for exhibition.

Only one such animal now exists which is known to owe its origin to those which escaped from the dens of the ancients.

It is the beaver, whose dams are now occasionally found upon the streams by those who traverse the woods.

Some of the aquatic birds, too, which frequent the lakes, are thought to have been originally derived from those which were formerly kept as curiosities.
In the castle yard at Longtover may still be seen the bones of an elephant which was found dying in the woods near that spot..