Word: mindanao
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...Thanks to two jungle-trotting G.I.s you may soon get a look at a strange creature from Mindanao called a tarsier...
When the war ended, two jungle-trotting G.I.s decided to stay in the Philippines and go tarsier trapping. Captain Harry Hoogstraal made a deal with Chicago's Natural History Museum, and Charles Wharton signed up the Washington Zoo. Then they set off into the jungle country of southern Mindanao, where tarsiers were known to be at large...
...hunters would have been content to catch three or four tarsiers. But Mindanao proved to be a happy hunting ground. The native system is to track through the jungle sniffing out the tarsiers by their musty odor. When the hunter shakes the trees, the tarsiers move on. When a sizable number have congregated in an isolated tree, the natives shinny up and grab them, knowing that tarsiers, like owls, cannot move around very efficiently in daylight...
...Interisland shipping has been slowly reconstructed, although beef from southernmost Mindanao is still being flown to Manila because of the lack of refrigerator ships. A thousand surplus tractors have helped boost carabao-geared farm production; the Filipinos are now nearly self-sufficient in food. There is no threat of cholera, which daily kills scores in Bangkok ; no plague, which continually ravishes part of China. Three million children, compared to a prewar two million, are back in school. Driving through Mindanao, I was amazed at the number of schools. Communal problems there are small. Said one Mohammedan datu (chieftain...
...these are the men who did the sweating and slugging, who wrote the story of the 24th on Leyte, Mindoro, Luzon, Mindanao. For the general reader, the best parts are those in which Valtin is the observer, not the recorder. A G.I. wants a pair of pliers. Why? To salvage gold teeth from a dead Jap. "Use your rifle butt," says a friend...