Word: maling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week bird lovers were again having a time. In the letters column of the Manchester Guardian, several correspondents described the belligerent tendency of male British bullfinches and chaffinches to attack their own reflections in windowpanes, incidentally disturbing the early morning slumber of human Britons. Nobody suggested shooting the noisemakers; the correspondents seemed to favor a mild deterrent-white paper stretched over the window to abolish reflection...
Even simple-minded animals, such as fish, seem to size up situations. Male fish of nest-building species chase other males off their premises. They welcome nubile females. To the human observer it looks as if they judge approaching fish, determine their sex and promise, and act accordingly. But this, explains Professor N. Tinbergen in a recent Bulletin of the Wilson Ornithological Club, is giving them too much credit. Often all they see is a single characteristic of the approaching fish, which "releases" in them a train of automatic responses...
...Osborn turns in a magnificent performance on vocal and acting levels as Earl Tolloller, and Richard Walker is fine as his friendly rival, the Earl of Mountararat. Richard Watson does his brief bit as Private Willis perfectly. Perhaps the weakest member of the cast is Charles Dorning as the male love interest, Strephon. Dorning's voice and style, while certainly adequate, are not up to the abilities of his fellows...
...Daisy, a Salt Lake City zoo tigress, gave birth to the first known liger (offspring of a female tiger, a male lion) ever born...
...confused with the tiglon (offspring of a male tiger, a female lion) at Manhattan's Central Park...