Word: caging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About 8:40 one morning last week, Warren Deane Thomas, a 26-year-old Ohio State University graduate student and employee of the Columbus Zoo, walked into the monkey house to feed the animals. When he reached the cage of Christina, a nine-year-old, 280-lb. gorilla, he found her squatting listlessly in a far corner, indifferent to the hard-boiled egg he held. Then he saw why: on the floor squirmed a baby gorilla-probably the first ever born in captivity...
...birth came as a surprise, since zoo officials knew that Christina was pregnant, but had little idea what a gorilla's gestation period is (in Christina's case it proved to be 259 days). Thomas dropped the egg and stepped into the cage. "I wasn't thinking of anything but the baby," he explained later. But Christina, who had probably given birth only three minutes earlier, was too dazed to attack him. She scurried into a retreat cage, and Thomas closed the door after her. Then he rushed with the baby to the zoo kitchen and removed...
...Friends of Harvard Track will be honored with a special preview of this year's teams this evening as the varsity, freshmen, and several members of the B.C. and B.U. track teams hold an informal intrasquad time trial in Briggs Cage. The weight events will begin at 6:30, with the first running event scheduled...
Plans for a meet with Army, to be held in the Cage on Feb. 23, are in the planning stage now, with final confirmation expected shortly. This would be the only home meet for the team...
...Crimson varsity track team, defending Heptagonal champions, opened its season with an informal time trial with the Tufts varsity in the Cage last night. At the same time, the Yardlings met the Jumbo freshmen. No scores were kept for either "meet" although times were recorded...