Word: mamba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equatorial sun beat down mercilessly, and birds of prey swooped in for unprecedented feasts. There are few baby monkeys or baboons-most have been eaten, some by their own species. The desperate monkeys gnaw the bark of their tree roosts and even attack the poisonous black mamba snake, from which they ordinarily flee in terror...
...Pillowcase. To capture the deadly black mamba, the wardens use a fishing rod adapted to pull a noose around the snake's neck; the snake is then gingerly deposited in a pillowcase. Dassies (shrill-voiced, rabbity creatures, distantly related to the elephant) and porcupines are deliberately driven into the water since, despite their small size, dassies bite when cornered and porcupines are armed with quills. Even in the water, it takes three men to outwit a porcupine...
...MAMBA (232 pp.)-Sfuarf Cloefe-Houghfon Mifflin...
...woman by leaving lizards about the house, and listens unmoved to the screams of a native being devoured alive by driver ants. When Henry turns jealous-for Helen has been meeting "I" in the bamboo thickets-he is inspired to his masterpiece of zoological warfare: he coils a dead mamba on Helen's dressing table. He is betting on the mamba's being not only a fearsome and deadly reptile, but one with the habit of seeking its dead mate. The relict of the dead mamba arrives on schedule and bites Helen in the neck. She dies...
...RADIO & TV). Then he rolled in a cloud of dust 530 miles along the corrugated dirt track, called the Great North Road, to Chinsali, a district commissioner's headquarters. There he switched to a bicycle and pedaled down a goat path through man-high bush, infested with mamba snakes, lions and man-eating chiggers, to the mud-and-thatch village where lives the prophetess, Lenshina Mulenga (see RELIGION...