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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Live Food. Back at West Burleigh, Fleay began the delicate job of conditioning the platypuses for life in The Bronx. They were installed in a Fleay-designed platypusary with a water tank and grass-lined burrows that simulated as closely as possible their natural habitat. Every afternoon Fleay took them from the burrows and put them in the tank. He encouraged visitors ("It helps them get accustomed to people and noise...
Flight Test. Fortnight ago, Fleay gave his platypuses a flight test. He put them in grass-lined boxes and took them for a 60-mile ride to Brisbane on a Trans-Australia Airlines DC-3. At Brisbane they seemed cheerful, but when they got back home, they seemed slightly dazed and ignored tempting heaps of wriggling earthworms. Next day Pamela and Paul were back in form, but Paddy kept sticking his head underwater (a sign of distress). When he did not recover his spirits after two days. Fleay liberated him in a nearby river. "Paddy is so sensitive," explained Fleay...
Perched high above the jungle grass aboard an elephant, U.S. Ambassador to India Ellsworth Bunker took five quick shots at a moving target, neatly bagged his first quarry: a prince-sized (12 ft. 10 in. long, 5 ft. 9 in. high at the shoulder) Indian bull bison. Warily clutching his gun, Nimrod Bunker posed for the camera with his solemn host, the Maharajah of Mysore, and the carcass, which was sent to a taxidermist for mounting...
...that uses the hydroponic method of growth (in a chemical solution without soil) was put on the market by Buckeye Corp., maker of chicken incubators. Housed in a 120-sq-ft aluminum building, it can match 15 to 25 acres of cattle pasturage by growing 45 tons of fresh grass a year at about $13 a ton. Lit by fluorescent lamps, it works night and day. Price...
...Bounds. In Vancouver, B.C., Golf Pro Jock McKinnon learned from doctors that he is allergic to grass...