Word: grub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ornithologists, the distinctive yap-yap-yap call and drumming of the large (19 in.) ivory-billed woodpecker have not been heard in significant numbers in the U.S. since the late 1930s, when all but a few of the birds were wiped out by loggers who cut down rotten, grub-filled swamp timber on which the woodpeckers fed. Now an official of the National Audubon Society named Robert Manns claims that he has heard one woodpecker's cries in the desolate Santee Swamp, near Columbia, S.C. The South Carolina Public Service Authority has heard Manns. The authority, which controls Santee...
African Nannies. Jane-and Grub -also profited from the chimps' mistakes. "When young chimps don't feel secure, they won't move a step from their mother," Jane says. "There was one chimp who kept walking off and leaving her baby alone. The infant chimp became so insecure that when it was playing with its mother at its side, it would never let go her hand." Thus forewarned, Jane kept Grub with her as much as she could, and when she had to, left him with two loving male African nannies. As a result, she believes, Grub...
Compared to British children, Grub, now three, nonetheless has a few deficiencies. He cannot moo like a cow, for example, or quack like a duck. But he can imitate the soft whooping of the hyena, and when he wants to, he can sound like a lion, a wild dog, a chimp or a jackal...
...Grub felt perfectly secure as long as he was living in the jungle, but he wonders if wild beasts may not be lurking in his grandmother's English garden. "Is it safe for me here?" he asks. Prudently, he retrieves his ball from under a shrub only after thumping the bush with a big stick to scare off snakes...
Left for Scavengers. More than anything else, Grub is appalled at civilized burial customs. When he and his three-year-old friend Rebecca found a dead bird, she wanted to bury it. Says Jane: "He was horrified. He thought the idea of hiding something that had been alive under the earth was quite obscene." Grub, a proper jungle child, knew that dead creatures should be left for scavengers...