Word: naturalist
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Next morning the local post office is swamped with cables supporting the elephant man. The world's conscience is aroused-or perhaps just its curiosity? In either case, the dentist has become a celebrated crusader. A naturalist sees in him the hope of the world. "Man," he says, "is destroying the plants, the animals, all the living roots that heaven planted in the earth. Poison heaven at its roots, and the tree will wither and die. The stars will go out, and heaven will be destroyed." And the hero concludes: "Who knows? If man begins by saving the elephants...
White Wilderness (Buena Vista) is the awesome product of three arduous summers and winters spent by eleven Walt Disney photographers in the Canadian and Alaskan far north. Their cameras caught enough to make any naturalist drool with delight. A polar bear plunges into the icy Arctic seas to give vain chase to a frisky seal; cocky bear cubs attack a one-ton walrus and drive him from his perch; a wolverine, nastiest of all far northern beasts, shrugs off the dive-bomb attacks of an osprey to climb a tall tree and devour a fledgling. Most impressive scene...
...horror stories. In Latin America they are a too real horror. They carry rabies and transmit it to humans and animals, whose blood they drink. Rabies does not necessarily kill the vampires, and anti-bat measures by humans do not kill enough of them. Last week a Brazilian naturalist, Dr. Augusto Ruschi, 41, was working out a new solution of the vampire problem: biological warfare with a disease that kills bats only...
...Naturalist Ruschi decided that the way to cope with rabid vampires was to learn everything possible about them. He had always liked vampires in a professional way ("Everybody calls me 'the bat man' "), and when bat rabies became a national problem, he turned his attention to it. He and his aides traveled thousands of miles through Brazil's back country; they studied 2,000 bat colonies, marked thousands of bats with dyes to learn their habits. They clocked the bats' flight (33 m.p.h.), and studied how bats find their victims by echolocation. Dr. Ruschi built...
...Albert Schweitzer, Morel has become a symbol for those discontented with the quality of modern existence. His allies, in the nature of things, are an odd lot. His personal Maquis, or tusk force, consists of a refugee girl, victim of multiple rape in the liberation of Berlin, a Danish naturalist, a U.S. magazine photographer, and a nuclear scientist who has just refused to go on helping to make the basalt bomb. Each in his own way understands something of Morel's strange passion...