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...year old physician, carrying an Eland-tail fly wisk and an intricately carved staff of authority, told a Winthrop House audience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Banda Says Sovereign Nyasaland Will Adhere to Moderate Policies | 10/7/1963 | See Source »

...black bears are "excellent swimers." Another, for the red fox, whose Latin name Vulpes fulva was spelled Vulpes Tulva, explained: "Range: Forrest regions in the temperate and sub-artic parts of both old and new world." The cherry-headed mangabey, read another sign, makes "speach-like sounds," while the eland runs in "large heards." The bear is famed for "it's strength and ferocity," and ostriches for "there keen sight and wary nature." Acting Zoo Director Vincent M. Mc-Namara promised that the signs would be replaced-when the zoo had enough money-but not, some thought, until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hot Spell at the Zoo | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...mammals, the hatching of an equal number of rare birds. Its latest swap brought two Central American quetzals, green-crested, scarlet-breasted "world's most beautiful bird," from New York's Bronx Zoo. Brookfield's starring attractions: 300 monkeys which clamber about sandstone cliffs, four giant eland from the Sudan, which may soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WARTIME LIVING: Zoos for Morale | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...round-the-world broadcasting cruise of Phillips ("Seth Parker") Lord with a diving bell of his own design. After graduation in 1935, he became a professional diver, worked on several successful salvaging jobs, brought up nothing but an 1851 penny from the hulk of the West M or eland which sank in Lake Michigan in 1854. He started experimenting with helium mixtures in a decompression chamber at Milwaukee County General Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deepest Dive | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...game he can still get with a full license includes three lions, leopard, cheetah, lynx, common hippopotamus, crocodile, hyena, wild dog, jackal, wart hog, badger, baboon, civet, buffalo, ordinary zebra, waterbuck, wildebeest, impala reedbuck, eland gazelle, the lesser kudu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Paradise Lost | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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