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Word: binturong (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...records Koch needed patience, ingenuity and a complicated apparatus. For a year an enormous van had to be moved back & forth between two big British zoos to catch the llama's hollow mating cry, the spotted hyena's angry laugh, the binturong's exhibitionist catcall. Koch spent some sleepless nights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Animal Language | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Wild Cargo (RKO) makes Frank Buck's life work of collecting animals for zoos appear to be a sinecure. When Buck sits down to rest in a Malay jungle he knows at once what causes each and every noise. "The East Indian binturong," says he, ''is a strange creature, half-bear, half-cat." Presently the binturong is laughing in a cage. When Frank Buck pitches a camp, white monkeys swarm on the roof. When he looks at a tree, there is a leopard in it. When a friendly potentate gives him a pig for Thanksgiving dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 9, 1934 | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...central plains, not in the southern jungles. Nonetheless Director Elliott's lion and tiger stage a good if indecisive fight, as do numerous other animals in a lavish variety of combats. Pythons grapple with a leopard, a water buffalo, a man. A crocodile fights a tiger, a binturong a lizard, a bear a hyena. A stampede of elephants helps out Devil Tiger's slim plot by trampling the leader of a safari. An amorous fellow, he has been gazing upon the pretty girl of the party, bathing naked. So numerous are the animals and so loud their snarls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 19, 1934 | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

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