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WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Disney's famed photographers have spent two years in Brazil's Amazon rain forest filming the habits of the jaguar. Color...
...shot by Sportswriter Charles Parmiter, who was exploring the rugged hunting and fishing possibilities in Costa Rica's jungle (see SPORT). At the time, he thought he was bagging a jaguar. Back in New York, a taxidermist told him it was an ocelot. Well, it could happen to any sportswriter...
...Tigre. More important to nimrods who want to shoot their own fur coats, the Sarapiqui jungle is home to five different varieties of wild cat, ranging from the little margay (about the size of an overgrown Siamese) to El Tigre himself: the jaguar-third largest cat in the world (behind the true tiger and the African lion...
...ears? The reasons are numerous. At first, it was a challenge and a sign of being off-beat. The girl who had pierced ears belonged to an elite group, whose members, rejoicing in their radicalness, felt a certain kinship to other piercees. The bond resembled that among owners of Jaguar sportscars, who honk loudly whenever they pass a confrere on the road. Also, ear piercing was a method of rebellion against parental authority. Mother, who had worn screw-on button earrings all her life, was horrified to see slivers of wood or tin dripping from her daughter's lobes...
...sculptors-now on view at Manhattan's Bernard Black Gallery-set their beasts in the great outdoors, with sinews rippling and manes ruffling. The bronze beasts battled for their lives on their tiny pedestals: bears brawling, a panther slaying a stag, a lion crushing a serpent, a jaguar gnawing at an alligator, an elephant charging...