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...aorta looked almost human. But Pathologist Holman knew that Pathologist Dunlap had been getting specimens from New Orleans' Audubon Park Zoo. Was it possible that here at last was an animal that developed atherosclerosis of the human type? The answer was yes. The aorta had come from a 16-year-old female baboon...
...consequence, July rainfall has been three times normal in sections of Texas, Nebraska, Minnesota and most of Missouri, almost as heavy in Kansas, Georgia and Maryland. Springfield, Mo. measured 16.4 in. during July's first three weeks (normal precipitation: 2.31 in.). Audubon, Iowa was drenched by over 12 in. in eleven hours; 19 drowned in resulting flash floods in the Nishnabotna River valley. Indiana's floods are the worst in 45 years, and the state's wheat crop this harvest may be only half the 38 million bu. estimated earlier. In North Dakota's Red River...
...traced to progress and the ensuing process of swamp drainage. A more recent short run problem has been the happy hunter who blasts away and, to his later regret, destroys one or more Grus americana. The most immediate problem facing the whooping crane is unfolding at the Audubon Park Zoo in New Orleans, where Josephine, a splendid female whooper, has just laid two eggs (referred to as a "clutch"). Since breeding wild in west-central Canada is a slow and dubious process at best, zoo breeding is a major hope of whooping crane lovers. It has been discovered that...
...Santayana wrote, "as an art that is interested in itself and not in its subject." American painters in general have turned not to themselves but to the nation, embracing and mirroring its thousand aspects. Charles Willson Peale fought at Princeton and Trenton and wintered at Valley Forge. John James Audubon killed birds in the wilderness not only for models but also to feed his children. Frederic Remington actually rode the Wild West as ranch hand, cook and cavalryman. Grant Wood said that all his best ideas "came while milking...
Bird watchers around Florida's Cape Canaveral boast each year of spotting more boat-tailed grackles, brown-headed nuthatches, yellow-shafted flickers and other species than any other group taking part in the National Audubon Society's Christmas bird count. Last week they were joined by an eager band of sky gazers bent on observing some of the most awesome birds of passage the world has seen. Lured to the Cape by advance tips that some of the promising missiles in the U.S. arsenal would be test-fired, 14 reporters and photographers stood a weeklong telescope watch over...