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...base Dogman Terhune might be in his explanation of the phenomenon, animal experts generally agree that dogs and other domestic beasts recognize human fear just as humans recognize it in each other. Some comments on the Terhune-A. M. A. controversy last week: Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, Bronx Zoo herpetologist: "Any indication of fear, either in humans or animals, is a temptation for the adversary to pile...
John O'Reilly of the New York Herald Tribune is not only an able newshawk but a good amateur naturalist who spends much of his time nosing around the laboratories of the American Museum of Natural History. One day last week he was watching burly, affable Herpetologist Gladywn Kingsley Noble at work in his clean smock among his pans, tanks and cages on the Museum's sixth floor. He saw Dr. Noble feeding grubs to a small frog which looked exactly as if it had been skinned alive. Its eyes were pink...
...spitting image of its mother!' crowed famed Herpetologist Raymond Lee Ditmars one day last week...
...persons who envied him his catch was Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed herpetologist of New York's Bronx Zoo. Ever since the night some 40 years ago when a bushmaster, sent by a Trinidad collector, chased him around his attic room, Dr. Ditmars has had a special regard for this snake. He has had three specimens, but the last one died 20 years ago. He went to Panama looking for one last year, again this year, with no luck...
...East Africa, with a view to elucidating the origins of certain genera only known from the Uluguru and Usambara forests, and throwing light upon the dispersal of isolated, sylvicoline forms common to the Cameroon Mountains of the west and the Usambara Mountains of the East Coast." That is what Herpetologist Arthur Loveridge of Harvard University is going to do this year, and he will get something like $2,500 for doing it. Last week he and 37 other scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships...