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...JOHN H. CHAFER...
...problem is food. Platypuses eat half their weight daily, and they demand live food. So every day Fleay dispenses 2,000 earthworms. 200 meal grubs, 30 crayfish, chafer grubs and crickets. Favorite item with the growing platypuses: small, wriggling grubs that Fleay raises under his house in bran and meal moistened with beer...
...Pamela's and Paul's trip to the U.S., Fleay was hoping that they would be reconciled to traveling by air. But even air travel will not be carefree. Between Australia and The Bronx, Pamela and Paul will demand-and get -7,000 earthworms, 165 crayfish, 130 chafer grubs and 1,300 meal grubs. By the time they arrive, Fleay estimates, they will have cost the New York Zoological Society about...
...caught rose chafers for my pets. I would always start in by giving my little frog the first bug and then give the next size two bugs and so on up. I had these frogs trained so that when I went to the pond and rang a bell I carried in my pocket they would hop out of the water and arrange themselves according to size. The small frog would always be at the left end of the line and they would be like stair-steps with No. 20 at my right. One morning I failed to find...
...Chafer, Veit...
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