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...LaGuardia airport, an American Overseas Airlines transport unloaded 30 dogs from Frankfurt, Germany and 97 reptiles from London, including twelve adders, three asps, four viperine snakes, 50 slowworms and two sandboas. On another plane from the Philippines, en route to The Bronx Zoo, came eleven tree shrews, three monkey-eating eagles, 14 giant cloud rats and 30 tarsiers. The tarsier (TIME, March 3), an insect-eating cousin of the monkey, is smaller than a squirrel, weighs only half a pound, has long fingers tipped by adhesive discs. Banjo-eyed is no word for a tarsier; its brown orbs suggest bass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORA & FAUNA: A Look at the Paper | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...week, when a boatload of animals came in from Singapore, he made a quick round of dealers in Manhattan and Camden, N.J. He especially wanted an orangutan: the $3,500 price tag was prohibitive. Instead he chose a pair of cheetahs ($1,800), a sacred ibis ($65), a patas monkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: By the Lake | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...What would you think if you had been descended from a monkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victorian Childhood | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...monkey, Papa? But I couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victorian Childhood | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...suppose it was proved to you that you were descended from a monkey-what would you think about it? What would you feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victorian Childhood | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

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