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...eight years the Chilean Government has prohibited the hunting or export of chinchilla, lest it become extinct. But naturalists as well as furriers have an interest in the chinchilla. No chinchilla has ever been kept alive in a U. S. zoo more than a year. The temperate climate of the U. S. is completely unsuited to the creature's constitution. In 1913 one M. F. Chapman of Los Angeles went high into the Chilean Andes, managed to trap a dozen. He brought them down gradually, kept them at 11,000 ft. for two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Chinchillas | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

From Harvard's collections of original drawings by Audubon, there are shown colored portraits of the passenger pigeon, now extinct, and that of the American widgeon, ivory billed woodpecker, red owl, frog eater, chuck will's widow, yellow billed cuckoo, whip-poor-will, and others. Audubon's early work as a young man of twenty-three along the Ohio river is shown in drawings of the belted kingfisher, red-winged blackbird, and cat bird...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Audubon Correspondence, "Elephant Folio," Bird Engravings Now on Exhibition in Widener | 5/14/1937 | See Source »

...thirteen feet from horn to tail. The statues are not duplicates, having been designed and cast separately. The Indian rhinoceros, selected because it is one of the nearest modern relatives of the prehistoric dinosaurs, is larger than its African relatives and possesses primitive three-toed feet. It is nearly extinct; only about 250 are now alive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL UNVEIL LATEST RHINOCEROS STATUES IN BIOLOGICAL LABS | 5/11/1937 | See Source »

...strong man previously at the controls of his sprawling, somnolent Republic, showed no signs of worry last week. It was the moment for him to deliver his annual message to Congress and he did so with the blandness of a mandarin: "With the hotbeds of the 1935 rebellion extinct . . . the situation appears peaceful and prosperous. However . . . the necessity of continued vigilance persists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Civil Commotion | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

Considered one of the finest examples of African art, the fourteenth century bronze portrait of a princess of Benin, fabulous and now virtually extinct small nation of the West African slave coast, was presented to the Fogg Museum by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of New York City...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Museum Gets Priceless African Bronze Portrait of a Princess of Benin | 4/28/1937 | See Source »

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