Word: fauna
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Tarpans, explains Dr. Heck in the latest Oryx, journal of Britain's Fauna Preservation Society, flourished as long ago as the Ice Age. Stone-Age man hunted them for food and decorated his caves with their pictures. The last true wild horses were found in the 1880s by the Russian explorer Przewalski. But the shaggy animals which Przewalski brought back from Dzungaria were heavy-boned, with long and awkward heads. They may well have been the ancestors of today's cart horses. There are some Przewalski horses still living in the Hellabrunn Zoo, and Dr. Heck began...
...matter of fact, it's difficult to see how they could have packed any more flora and fauna in one picture. With natives seven feet tall, and stampeding herds of zebra and gnu, the show is bound to be of more than passing interest...
...Deserts which gradually, through millions of years, acquired flora and fauna...
Approximately 120 schools in Canada, Latin America, Europe, and the Near East will offer a wide scope of courses. On the agenda is everything from study of the Gregorian chant to Cuban flora and fauna, Shakespearean drama to Greek Arvin archeology...
Approximately 120 schools in Canada, Latin America, Europe and the Near East will offer a wide scope of courses. On the agenda is everything from study of the Gregorian chant to Cuban flora and fauna, Shakespearean drama to Greek temperature, or the French language to craven archeology...