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...platypus observers noted that something was up in the platypusary. True enough, Cecil and Penelope never varied in their basic routine: they slept by day (with an hour's break for visitors), came out at night for dinner (25 to 35 live crayfish, 200 to 300 worms, one frog, several scrambled eggs, add mud and stir). But beyond that, instead of just waddling about his own business, Cecil began to court Penelope. He grabbed her flat tail in his duckbilled, toothless mouth, and held on for dear life while Penelope dragged him around the pool in slow circles...
...Frog-voiced Gambler Frank Costello...
...lonely frog...
...exposed. ¶ Narcotics. Drug addiction and all its byproducts may now be freely depicted, but only if damned on all counts. ¶ Bigotry and Prejudice. Miscegenation may now be handled discreetly, but anything inciting hatred among peoples is taboo. To be "avoided": the use of the words "chink, dago, frog, greaser, hunkie, kike, nigger, spik...
...Museum of Comparative Anatomy, where he taught Natural History 3, a course in comparative anatomy and physiology. As one of his students, G. Stanley Hall, Ph.D. '78, recalled, "In a tiny room under the stairway of Agassiz Museum he had a metronome, a device for whirling a frog, a horopter chart, and one or two bits of apparatus...