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Though it looks like a live teddy bear, the koala belongs to Australia's primitive family of marsupials. The newborn koala is beetle-sized. It lives in its mother's pouch for eight months, clings to her back for some months thereafter (see cut). A full-grown koala is some 2 ft. long, weighs about 12 lb. It spends its life in the branches of eucalyptus trees, eats only eucalyptus leaves and of these only twelve varieties. A koala fed leaves from any other of Australia's some 400 varieties of eucalyptus tree will die. The koala...
...issue of the Sydney Sunday Sun and Guardian with half a page devoted to pictures of the koala and a plaintive screed by Noel Burnet. "Few American visitors," wrote he, "would fail to give everything they possess to take back to the States a real live 'Teddy bear,' but, alas, that cannot...
...What," moaned embittered Mr. Burnet, "is a grateful country doing to save the Native Bear with that 'plaintive face' which has so completely 'sold' Australia to the rest of the world? The answer is -NOTHING...
Tennessee's boars, descended from Russian stock imported and freed by South Carolina planters some three decades ago, bear about the same relation to domestic pigs as a Tasmanian bushman bears to a Tammany district leader. Lean and muscular, weighing 150 to 400 lb., the boars' chief characteristics are great speed, ferocious courage, dagger-sharp tusks which can rip a dog or man to tatters. Tennessee mountaineers rate them more dangerous than bears. A Cherokee Forest ranger lately failed to stop one with ten bullets, escaped with his life only because his dog diverted the charging beast...
...room log cabin near Senath, Mo., a white sharecropper named Jim Bridges sat waiting for his 35-year-old wife to bear their sixth child one gloomy afternoon last week. He hoped this one would not die as four of the others had. Old Dr. Fred Speidel and three neighbor women had come over to help Pearl Bridges through her time...