Word: fauna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Distressed Dialect. To the rescue came "The Birdman of The Hague," Zoologist Johann D. F. Hardenberg of the Ministry of Agriculture's fauna department. Called in by the Air Force and Amsterdam's airport, Hardenberg's first move was to import an American invention, a loudspeaker playing the tape-recorded distress calls of American herring gulls. It was an imaginative effort, but it did not work. Dutch herring gulls apparently speak a dialect all their own and are not alarmed by the screams of their American cousins. When Dr. Hardenberg recorded distressed Dutch gulls and a Jeep...
...INCREDIBLE JOURNEY. Walt Disney's appealing package of holiday fauna contains a bull terrier, a Labrador retriever and a Siamese cat, all letting the fur fly on a 250-mile trek through the Canadian wilds...
...Marston Bates. 316 pages. Random House. $15. These volumes provide the armchair naturalist with some of the year's best animal photographs and the best substitute for a safari he is likely to find anywhere. Animals in Africa brings its lens to bear on all manner of African fauna, from elephants lumbering through the bush with ears spread like spinnakers to a striped chameleon inching its way into the center of a hibiscus flower. Animal Worlds, with photographs by Ylla, Fritz Goro, Eliot Porter and others, pursues fish, bird, insect and animal life from the tropics to the Arctic...
Couelle's abodes are influenced by flora as well as fauna, as, for instance, his staircases. "Like plants-they curl," explains Couelle. "It is a law of nature. Stairs must curl, and they must not be shaped regularly. They must have irregularities so you shift your weight. You can run up and down my staircases all day without tiring...
Until last year, our knowledge of the contamination of the Arctic food chain was nonexistent. There is now before the AEC for approval a proposal for a comprehensive program of research on the contamination of Alaskan Arctic fauna and flora. This proposal has been pending for months. It must be approved and shortly...