Word: fauna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skillful photography, and phenomenal condescension on the part of the African fauna, however, make "Trader Horn" the super-show that it claims...
...triumphal week for college-bred fauna. Purdue won with sheep of all breeds, also with Poland China, Berkshire and Chester White hogs; the agricultural school at LaFayette, Ind. won with lambs; so did Illinois; Iowa State Agricultural School had the best pen of Tamworth barrows; Wisconsin had the best Yorkshire barrows, Tamworth hogs. Other winners...
Although founded to include flora & fauna of the whole U. S., the Boston Museum today is known as a specialist in New England animals, minerals, flowers. It contains a complete exhibit of old New Bedford and Nantucket whaling days, including whaling implements, ambergris, immense whale skeletons. Many famed people have been interested in adding to its collection. Naturalist-Author Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), who learned to love animals while driving his mother's cow to pasture, gave a warbler and some hawk eggs. Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was interested in the society because he liked hunting and fishing...
Changes of Fauna Hinder...
...study of species is complicated in this and the succeeding zone, where the highest mountains of Guatemala are located, by reason of the changes in fauna which occur, not only as one ascends or descends a mountain peak through various levels in its 13,000 or 14,000 feet. In this arid subtropical plateau there are peaks which have birds of the tropical desert at their base, of the arid subtropical plateau upon their slopes, and of the temperate regions on their summits. All this complicates the task of a cataloguer. It is necessary to state at what altitude...