Word: orangutan
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Died. Betty, aged 10 days, fourth orangutan born in the U. S. (TIME, May 14); of starvation when maternal nervousness stopped her mother Nancy's flow of milk; in Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. Fiercely protective like all orangutan mothers, Nancy would not let zoomen touch the baby, tried to keep it alive with mouthfuls of milk from...
...reddish fringe about its round, bald head-clung to its 110-lb. mother's hairy leg and squeaked. Daughter of the Zoo's Jiggs and Nancy, it was 10 in. long, weighed 2¼lb. and was, so far as zoo officials knew, the fourth orangutan ever born in a U. S. zoo. Zoomen had to leave it strictly alone because an orangutan mother when frightened will squeeze her baby to death. Mother & baby, it was announced, are worth some $3,000. They would be worth more if the baby had been a male, but Director Floyd Young...
...Texas parents who ran a covered wagon station in Texas, he started his career by catching birds and snakes with a bolas (which he uses on the cassowary in Wild Cargo). Since then he has crossed the Pacific 40 times, made five trips around the world, knocked out an orangutan in a fist fight. At Singapore, he maintains a completely stocked base for his expeditions. Throughout the Malay Peninsula he has native scouts who report to him the unexpected appearance of any rare or curious creature from the deep jungle. In Manhattan, where he has a handsome apartment...
Virginia, English spinster and university graduate, had a great idea. She would adopt a newborn orangutan, bring him up like a human child, make him gradually over into a human being. She got the orangutan, called him Appius, removed herself and him to an isolated cottage where for ten years she carried out her great experiment. Mother, servant and teacher all in one, Virginia brought up Appius with firmness and faith in the way well-behaved little boys should go. Up to a certain point things went well. Appius walked erect, called Virginia "Mama," spoke out his simple ideas...
...bullfrogs. Later he went to South America to collect rare birds for his own amusement, but he was offered so much money for his collection that he decided to make a business of animal-catching. Now, after five trips around the world, 40 Pacific crossings, after knocking out an orangutan in a fist fight, collecting hundreds of wild beasts in his own depot at Singapore and a number of scars on his person, he is famed as one of the world's leading animal catchers. He has supplied many a U. S. zoo with first specimens, stocked the Dallas...