Word: orang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pessek was an orang-outang who closed her shutters when visitors bored her, who politely returned Author Eipper the peels and pips of a gift-orange. Mr. Eipper next looked at the pale faery eyes of a Bengal tigress, fixed on distance like those of some Eastern image. He watched the pelican gulp fish. He sat down and let four orang-outang infants clamber over him and played with them as an equal. From the rear he looked at the young elephants- "like forlorn village children in the Sunday pants of a corpulent parent." Only the chimpanzees disturbed him. Said...
...invented by himself, to shoot animals unconscious instead of dead. The bullets contained a chemical which, upon entering an animal's blood stream, would anesthetize. It would presumably be easier to avoid than to hit the animal's vital spots. Collector Harris proposed to put gorillas and orang-outangs to sleep at long range, bring them home alive...
...What well known animal, besides the gorilla, chimpanzee, guinea pig, two-tailed sloth, orang-outang, has no visible tail...
Those of Dr. Voronoff's listeners who were not skeptical were reported as being "highly shocked," but no more shocked than other squeamish persons had been at Dr. Elie Ivanoff's announcement, earlier in the year (TIME, June 28), that he is to try breeding (artificially) orang-outangs with yellow, gorillas with black, and chimpanzees with white, humans, at the Pasteur Institute of Kindia, French West Africa, to try to demonstrate the close relation of human and ape stocks...
...emotion of chimpanzees and orang-outangs is not very different from the emotion of man", said Dr. Wolfgang Koehler, Director of the Institute of Psychology of the University of Berlin, who has been visiting the University for the past week-end. "The only difference--if it is a difference--between the love of an ape and the love of a man, is that if you take the ape's girl into the next rom, he promptly forgets all about her." Dr. Koehler has spent several years in intimate study of apes in the Canary Islands...