Word: baboons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Others: Babirusa or pig-deer; Cynopithecus nigrescens, the black, crested baboon...
...game he can still get with a full license includes three lions, leopard, cheetah, lynx, common hippopotamus, crocodile, hyena, wild dog, jackal, wart hog, badger, baboon, civet, buffalo, ordinary zebra, waterbuck, wildebeest, impala reedbuck, eland gazelle, the lesser kudu...
...other day one of these wags came stalking into the Crimson office, grinning like a baboon, slapped the program of a recent symphony concert on our desk, and demanded that we print two whole pages out of it bodily. The heading to the particular note that interested him read: "Death Music of Siegfried, from 'Gotterdammerung', Act IH, Scene 2". In its own eloquent way it was almost as moving as the music. And then immediately under it appeared a modest advertisement for J. S. Waterman & Sons, Funeral Service since...
...Arriving today somewhat earlier than usual, he was amazed to see a 'squad' of about a dozen baboons busily imitating the military exercises they had witnessed. Carrying branches of trees sloped over their shoulders like rifles, they were drawn up in line, while a baboon that was larger than the others impersonated the 'non-com,' gibbering orders...
...financial difficulties, put up his pipe organ for sale, offered his house to the Decatur (Ga.) American Legion and his zoo to the city. Week later the Georgia Court of Appeals ordered him to pay $10,000 damages to a woman neighbor who charged that a baboon jumped over the wall of the zoo, devoured $60 in currency out of her purse...