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Last year, to foil the vigor seekers, the Fauna Preservation Society of Lon don launched Operation Oryx. Led by Major Ian R. Grimwood, chief game warden of Kenya Colony, an expedition of oryx savers spent two months in the deserts of Aden Protectorate in southern Arabia. They sighted four oryxes, lassoed three of them from a specially built car and brought them safely back alive...
...March 1865, James interrupted his studies to embark on a field trip to Brazil. Louis Agassiz, the great biologist, led the expedition, and for one full year the troupe investigated the fauna and flora of South America. A mild case of smallpox made the initial months unpleasant, though it left James with no facial pock-marks. By October his health and spirits had improved considerably. Despite the ill-concealed homesickness of many of his ship-board letters, James seldom regretted the journey in late life...
...animal nudity. In Prout's view the sight of naked animals "triggers moral deterioration and helps explain why there is so much juvenile delinquency and adult crime." Presumably, the proposed campus chapter of SINA woud correct this laxity by providing knickers, shorts, and other coverings for the local fauna. (A SINA "emergency clothesmobile" cruises the streets of New York with simple animal garments for the worst cases of indecency...
...doesn't make much sense. But then the movie wasn't meant to make sense; it was meant to make money. It has one major star (William Holden), one good actor (Trevor Howard), one competent director (Jack Cardiff, who did Sons and Lovers), infinitudes of the usual fauna and some spectacular shots of Mount Kenya. It also has a portly, natty, sophisticated Hollywood lion named Zamba, who looks as though he came from F.A.O. Schwarz and waddles like a middle-aged millionaire stuffed with Chateaubriand and Trancopal-what's more, while on location in Kenya he nibbled...
...separate incidents of squirrel attacks on persons in the Yard yesterday afternoon have forced University Health officials to consider the disturbing possibility of a rabies epidemic among Yard fauna...