Word: cats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This winter," says Doug Crowe, a Wyoming wildlife official, "started out like a bear cat...
...animals are roaming toward settled areas for food. They often wander plowed roads and railroad tracks: 400 antelope were struck and killed by trains in one week in Carbon County, Wyo. Where prey go, predators follow: coyotes are coming close to towns to eat deer. Or whatever. "Archibald, my cat, won't go out at night any more," says D.J. Bassett of Jackson...
...Typically, winter kills 5% to 15% of the herds; this season more than half of some herds could die. Colorado, with 550,000 deer and 130,000 elk, may spend $1.6 million for emergency feeding. One morning last week near Kremmling, Colo., Gerrans and his crew took their Sno-Cat, a huge cart with tanklike treads, rumbling out for the daily 14-mile feeding sortie. The men scattered high-protein biscuits by the handful across the snow. Soon a pair of mule deer appeared, then five...
...stands kept wondering: how long could Harvard continue to keep its head above water? When would Duke arrest its tantalizing game of cat and mouse and finally open up the trap into which the Crimson was inevitably supposed to fall...
...quite) ruptures its own decorum in the interests of poetry: the Virgin, momentarily out of her wits, cringes before the prospect of divine insemination, while God makes ready to descend from the sky like a high diver; the ethereal angel, pale blue and ivory, gestures threateningly; a tabby cat arches its back in terror, as well it might...