Word: habitat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meadows (where Daniel Boone taught him how to "bark" squirrels), down a flooded Mississippi into Louisiana bayous; along Florida's keys. Always poor, Audubon let his loyal wife support him, while he followed his lifelong, single purpose: to paint the birds of the U. S. in their natural habitat...
...expedition's cooperative program for increasing knowledge of the gibbon and other Asiatic primates included also a comprehensive field study of gibbon behavior and social relations. Systematic studies were made on 20 different groups of wild gibbons in their undisturbed natural habitat. Their behavior was recorded in several thousand feet of film, while sound recordings were made of most of the typical gibbon calls. Nine live gibbons were brought back to New York
Although Dr. Matsner thus withheld some information of interest to women, he was frank about the uses of his toads. When away from their native habitat they will not lay eggs naturally. However, if they receive a hypodermic injection of urine from a pregnant woman they invariably produce a few eggs. Non-gravid or male urine fails to affect them. "Therefore," smiled Dr. Matsner, "at 16? apiece they are the cheapest, most reliable indicator of pregnancy which we have- cheaper than rabbits or guinea pigs, which must be killed before they reveal the uncertain woman's condition: more reliable...
...TIME, Jan. 4, p. 25, you state "when she grows up Su-lin will . . . eat nothing but bamboo shoots." In the same article you state that the baby giant panda's native habitat is "China's chilly Szechwan Province." It has been my belief that bamboo grows only in tropical or subtropical climates. The northernmost point at which I have seen it growing is just outside Jacksonville, Fla. and that is, 1 believe, at a Government experimental garden. Is there a different variety native to cold climates? Otherwise, how does this animal find bamboo in its native habitat...
When Sportsmen Harkness & Griswold reached China early last year, the Government refused them permission to enter the giant panda's wild, bandit-infested habitat. Alone, Harkness boarded a Shanghai train at Nanking, vanished. Fortnight later, a U. S. Marshal found him in a Shanghai hotel, registered under an assumed name...