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Word: civet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Horde | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Natural Historians | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fur Trade | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

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