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...sentimental about all kinds of animals, but she is a realist, and pet lions do not eat canned cat food). Elsa's life in the bush did not affect her extraordinary trust of Mrs. Adamson; the author tells, for instance, of being allowed to feel the lioness' abdomen during the pregnancy, and records that Elsa often would stay in camp for a day or two at a time, while her exasperated mate roared for her in the bush...
...Elias, 27, supposedly betook herself to Manhattan's Bowery where, for $5, she got herself tattooed with her name and social security number (023-22-9834). Alleged reason: "In this day of possible large-scale disaster, all of us should wear identification." Alleged site of identification: the lower abdomen. Explained the sultry singer, as her pressagent showed unconcealed delight: "I couldn't think of a more inconspicuous place...
...difficulties are far greater with mammals. To get a germfree line started, researchers have to deliver germfree young by Caesarean section. Just before the pregnant animal would normally deliver, it is anesthetized, strapped to a miniature operating table, and its abdomen shaved and sterilized. Two sterilized tanks are prepared and connected by a sterile tunnel. The animal is slipped into the operating tank. A surgeon puts his hands in the rubber gauntlets that are sealed into portholes in the tank's sides. A set of sterile instruments is already in place. He delivers the young, drops them into...
...Frisch reported that when one of Yugoslavia's Carniolan bees does her "wagtail dance." shaking her abdomen while walking a figure eight, it means that food is more than 300 ft. away. When an Italian bee does the same step, it means that the pollen is more than 250 ft. away...
...operating theater whose big windows fronted on the jungle, the woman patient's abdomen was laid open. Surgeon Olwen Silgardo was worried. The mask could not filter out the strain in his voice as he asked: "Somebody send for the old man, please." The old man hurried in without waiting to don a mask. "Is that a cyst?" he asked. "No," answered Silgardo, "it looks as though a tumor has spread." The old man asked: "Do you mind if I get my hands in there?" A nurse helped him into his surgical gloves. The two doctors proceeded...