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...feathered walkie-talkie, the elephant slurps up a gentleman's bath, and the zebra turns domestic. On balance, the kid himself might seem the worst behaved, but Zebra isn't that kind of bestiary. Producer-Director Ivan Tors, who made Rhino! and the Flipper series, views all fauna through globs of sentiment. In a rich and foamy climax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Zoo Story | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

...expedition was a long term research project on the fauna of Equador. The Paynters and Norton were studying factors of distribution affecting jungle bird life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Ornithologists in Ecuador Attacked by Men Wielding Machetes | 11/9/1965 | See Source »

...able to provide everything from a python to a piranha on a day's notice." Squirrel monkeys, owl monkeys, woolly monkeys and others have become so popular that they are hardly classified as exotic any more. Among other species in demand are such far-out fauna as anteaters (they prefer bananas), wolves, wild pigs, electric eels, baby crocodiles and iguanas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: Unloading the Ark | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

RHINO! is a brilliantly scenic safari that combines the usual African flora and fauna with highly entertaining melodrama and a sharp sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 25, 1964 | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...girl to conjure with. As the redoubtable Mary Poppins, who declares herself "practically perfect in every way," Julie slides up banisters, arranges all sorts of tidy miracles, and even whisks her charges off to one of Disney's cloyingly clever never lands where the cartoon fauna come swiftly to heel. Although she pokes her pretty fingers into a world of sticky sweetness, she almost invariably pulls out a plum. All speeches and cream, with a voice like polished crystal, she seems the very image of a prim young governess who might spend her free Tuesdays skittering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Have Umbrella, Will Travel | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

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