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In the subtropical mountain rain forest, or "high jungle," of Venezuela, Beebe's zoologist-assistant Jocelyn Crane ran across a fantastic concrete hotel building that had been left to molder unfinished after the death, in 1935, of its builder, Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. If Rancho Grande was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Animal Kingdom | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

A gasoline generator gave them light, and drying facilities for their laboratory and clothes. Investigating the riot of fungus, lichens, molds, smuts and mildews that festooned the place, Beebe discovered Protozoa, Coelenterata, Platyhelminthes, Nemathelminthes, and Rotifera, and was certain of the existence of Mollusca, Oligochaeta, Hirundinea and Arthropoda.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Animal Kingdom | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

To get a laugh from Venezuelan vertebrates in the neighborhood, Beebe and company put up a sign reading "LABORATORIO: MANICOMO," i.e., bughouse. Some of the natives watched with great interest as Beebe experimented with such insects as the Hercules beetles, six inches long, which outweigh some of the smallest mammals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Animal Kingdom | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

For close observation Beebe (who will be 72 July 29), liked to squat motionless as a stump in the forest or sit for hours on the limb of a tree. For long-range work he used giant binoculars mounted on a tripod; with these he could make out the scent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Animal Kingdom | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

* Beebe says he has often been misquoted about sharks. He respects them, having once found a man's arm in a shark's stomach.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Animal Kingdom | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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