Word: caging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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News. In Bloemfontein, Union of South Africa, a balky lion that had refused to move into its new cage at the Bloemfontein zoo scrambled right in when an attendant gave its tail a hard bite...
Sentimentalists often mourn for captive eagles, prevented by cruel man from soaring into the sky. But eagles, says Dr. Hediger, do not really like to fly long distances, and never do so except when forced by hunger. If grounded in a cage and fed regularly, they live to a ripe old age, producing regular crops of eaglets...
...please. Some demand deep privacy, or trees to climb, or earth to dig in, before they feel "at home." Some have peculiar demands. For instance, the slow loris (a primitive primate) marks out its territory, as many animals do, by the scent of its urine. So every time its cage is cleaned, the loris feels dispossessed. It "has to drink incredible quantities of water straight away," says Dr. Hediger, "and sprinkle the nice clean floor systematically just like a watering cart...
Each morning, as White House Messenger Robert M. Goodloe lifted the curtain from Flash's silvery, over-sized cage, the bird would greet him with a dulcet, patronizing "Hello, boy." As girl workers arrived, beady-eyed Flash greeted them with wolf calls. When crossed, which was seldom, Flash cussed the air blue. He was fond of raisins, and newsmen slipped him plenty, though some said he preferred bourbon...
...Rome, Boxer-turned-Cinemactor Buddy (Jacob Jr.) Baer, hulking (6 ft. 6½ in.) brother of ex-Heavyweight Champ Max Baer, came out second best in a tussle with the King of Beasts. Passing by a lion's cage on the set of MGM's Quo Vadis, Buddy scarcely had time to duck when a big paw shot through the bars, ripped his shirt from shoulder to waist, clawed an inch-deep gash in his left...