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Though the green frog among his lily pads and the dappled deer in the sun-flecked forest are familiar to everyone, adaptive coloration has always confused biologists. Extremists like G. H. and Ab bott H. Thayer (whose Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom is often consulted by U.S. Army camouflage experts) have claimed that all animals are camouflaged, "the most gorgeous costumes being, in their own way, climaxes of obliterative coloring." Obliterative climax of the Thayers' theories-which made Theodore Roosevelt gnash his teeth and boom "Nature Fakers!"-was the idea that flamingos are concealingly colored because their foes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Natural Camouflage | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

They Met in Bombay (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) awards frog-voiced Clark Gable the Victoria Cross. This fast-and-loose play with Great Britain's most coveted decoration is not likely to please the British or amuse Americans. How the decoration comes about is very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 21, 1941 | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...Frog (French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Don'ts | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...bullfrog has protruding eyes and makes a loud, guttural noise, as if he owned the frog pond. He feeds on any living animal matter which he can swallow, and is in turn devoured by creatures stronger than he, such as snakes, fishes, herons, alligators, etc.-Encyclopaedia Britannica and other sources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Imperial Bullfrog | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...yard, stalked off again with two birds who looked pretty much like weasels in chicks' clothing. One was tough, slick George E. Browne, an A.F. of L. vice president and member of Mr. Green's executive council. The other was a onetime Chicago pimp-200-lb., frog-faced William ("Willie") Bioff. The charge against them: extortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Weasels in the Chicken Yard | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

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