Word: agouti
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...lions, two tigers, two cougars, an Indian leopard, a male buffalo, a rhinoceros named Toodles, an elephant named Nancy, an agouti, a coati-mundi and some 300 other kinds of beast, bird & fish used to be on view in Coalman George Fulmer Getz's zoo at Holland, Mich. This week a larger public may look at them when with grunts, growls, roars, squeals and speeches the Chicago Zoological Society opens its new, 133-acre zoo at Brookfield, 15 mi. southwest of Chicago...
...Gregory Goodwin Pincus and his associate refined their operative procedure, gave their performers every advantage. The agouti* doe which was to contribute the ova was first allowed to mate with a sterile buck. After removal the ova, examined to make sure they were not fertilized, were placed in a culture flask for 20 min. with the healthy sperm of a non-agouti black buck. Finally they were implanted in the right Fallopian tube of a New Zealand Red doe which had been rendered pseudopregnant by a sterile mating. The dark grey color of the bunnies, born 33 days later...
...Agouti: bavins black hair with yellow tips...