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Word: bushbucks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1926-1926
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...among other denizens of the African continent are to be secured for inspection by the U. S. public and its children: lions and pygmy mice (bumblebee size); black rhinoceroses and hyraxes; giraffes; eland (the Zoo has but one aged cow); sable and pygmy antelope, fringe-eared oryx, topi, hartebeest, bushbuck, kudu, reedbuck, duiker, impalla and. oribi; colobus and Sykes monkeys; leopards, hunting dogs; wild hogs; aardvark and aardwolves, hyenas, caracals, servals, civet cats; the giant python, spitting cobras, puff adders, black mambas, boomslangs (tree snakes); parrots, love birds, giant ground hornbills, fish eagles, secretary birds (snake-killers), brilliant plaintain-eaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Natural Historians | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

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