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...many years sporadic stories have come out of South Africa about a wild boy caught in the Koonap district in 1903 while traveling with a tribe of baboons. His captors were members of the Cape police. Last year Professor Raymond Arthur Dart of the University of Witwatersrand, discoverer of the celebrated fossil apeman named Australopithecus, queried the district police about the Baboon Boy. There was no written record of his finding, and the man who had caught him, Lance Sergeant Charles Holsen, had died; but another policeman who knew Holsen remembered his story, and this checked with the version previously...
...humiliating opinion offered in last week's Journal of the American Dental Association by the University of Pennsylvania's Dentist Leonard Rosenthal and colleagues. They based their opinion on extensive researches, mostly at Philadelphia's zoo. They examined the saliva of one hippopotamus, two lions, one baboon, two elephants, one rhinoceros, 28 pigs, two horses, two chimpanzees, 50 dogs, eight cats...
...saliva of all these animals, said the dentists, "was notable for low bacterial count in comparison with man's." Only animal with a mouth bad enough to be nearly human : "a 30-year-old baboon with an extremely dirty mouth from which many teeth were missing...
...Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, a tea party on the Provincial Commissioner's lawn was interrupted by a wild baboon. The guests fled and he finished their pastry, picked some flowers, disappeared. Same night the pleased baboon returned, rang the doorbell hopefully, was shot...
...Chicago streets into sheds in his South Side lumberyard Mr. Meitus proudly led a nervous procession of 9 monkeys, 6 horses, 5 trainers (whom he had put on his payroll), 5 ponies, 4 great Danes, 3 lions, 2 elephants, 2 deer, a leopard, a tiger, a hyena and a baboon. He put his 75 employees to work setting up the big top in a vacant lot next door, invited 10,000 poor children to come as his guests for "hot dogs, pink lemonade, popcorn and everything else that goes with a circus." Three extra platforms...