Word: koala
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...read your koala article with interest & approval...
...feel that I should add my tuppence ha' penny worth to the Cause of the koala [TIME, Nov. 16, et seq.] As a resident of Australia for 14 years I have had first-hand experience with the "Joey." The term "Teddy Bear" is an American importation and is not used "down under...
...State of Victoria has provided a sanctuary for the koala on Phillip Island in Great Western Bay near the most southeasterly tip of the continent. Although almost extinct on the mainland the "bears" have done very well in their island home and lately have become so numerous that it has been necessary to remove many of them to adjacent spots...
...take heart, American lovers of the koala. Their plight has been recognized by the Victorian Government and it will be a long, long time before they join the legions of species extinguished by the greed...
...November, 1902 President Theodore Roosevelt, hunting bear in Mississippi, refused to shoot a cub brought into camp for him to kill. This illustration of Roosevelt I's compassion was cartooned by Clifford K. Berryman of the Washington Post, who sketched the cub as a cuddly, koala-like animal, thus created the "Teddy bear'' which became T. R.'s totem until the Bull Moose movement of 1912. First toy Teddy bears were made in Germany by famed stuffed Toymaker Margarete Steiff, who is believed not to have copied the koala...