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Dourine is a genital disease peculiar only to horses. It swells their groins and eventually paralyzes their hind quarters. The cause of the disease is a trypanosome, brother of the trypanosome which causes human sleeping sickness and distant relative of Treponema pallidum which causes syphilis. Dourine is highly contagious and spreads rapidly among unstalled horses. Arizona fears the spread of the disease among her domesticated herds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Horse Slaughter | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...Kilmer's Sun Beau, world's record money-winner ($356,044) by eight lengths. Sir Ashley† by 81 Mate, who has beaten Twenty Grand in two out of three starts this year, was withdrawn a week before the race with a deep cut in his left hind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

They almost lost when Gunda the elephant tried to kill his keeper. Another keeper drove Gunda away by driving a pitchfork into the tender hind quarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: One Month for Ducking | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...trap has been sprung, a mouse is caught, the wire pressing with cruel force across its backbone, just above the hind legs. The front legs, neck, head and shoulders are free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Brisbane's Mouse | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...schaapstecker (sheepsticker) snake. As the frog began disappearing head first down the schaapstecker's narrow gullet, a puffy night adder moved near. Seeing the adder, the schaap-tecker gulped hard to get its meal down safely; but the quick adder got hold of the frog's right hind leg, started swallowing the prize from that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Goodnight Buffaloes | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

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