Word: civet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rhinoc'rus" was among the horde of beasts, birds and reptiles captured by Dr. Mann, but there were: a shoebill stork* and some 400 other birds including hawks, crested tawny eagles, white-headed vultures, paradise finches, rare parrots; an elephant shrew; the largest leopard in captivity; civet cats, water mongooses, baboons, purple-faced monkeys, hyenas. Among the antelopes quarantined at Boston were five impalla, most graceful of their family; a baby eland, blind in one eye from the blazing grass in which he was captured; several dik-diks, no bigger than jackrabbits...
...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, sun-birds and the paradise whydah (whose body is canary size with nine inches of tail); leopard tortoises, monitor lizards (which ravage crocodile...
...York market during the past fortnight nearly 11,000 skins of house (Satis, among other items, changed hands in one day. Black cat pelts from Holland sold for as much as $1.02 each. For civet cats, even higher prices ruled; "Nos. 1 and 2 Iowa" reached $1.20, and "ringtail cat" rose...