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Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Account of an expedition to Orinoco River, retracing the historic journey of Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt...
Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail had their moments of mischief, but they were generally gentle, carefree and lovable little creatures. In fact, they possessed most of the virtues that real rabbits do not have. For, says Naturalist Ronald M. Lockley in Britain's New Scientist, rabbits are usually unhappy and just as mean as they can manage...
...Your Hat . . ." Mountain Man Clyde took the long way around getting to be top climber in the Sierra. Son of a Presbyterian minister in Philadelphia, he graduated as a classics scholar from Pennsylvania's Geneva College, but in 1909 he was lured to California by the writings of Naturalist John Muir. Clyde put in a dozen restless years teaching school, then quit and took to the Sierra for good...
...Buzzing Sound." What is more, Clyde is a self-trained naturalist who contributes scientific reports to the California Academy of Sciences, a pathfinder who has saved stranded motorists by skiing through blizzards with food strapped to his broad back. He is so accurate with a slingshot that he rarely has to resort to his .22-cal. pistol to kill small game. He scoffs at the idea of riding an animal up a mountain: "I can carry a damn mule faster than he can carry...
...horizons expanded, the naturalist in Cousteau soon became disgusted with spearfishing, and he gave it up ("We have a tremendous responsibility to nature"). He noted that the fish quickly became wary of the spearfisherman. "An atmosphere builds up in a reef that is understood by the younger fish," says Cousteau. ''The fish learn to avoid the man with the gun. The longer the gun, the farther away the fish keep...