Word: orangutans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South African teeth, Dr. Gregory also found connections with Peking Man, the orangutan, and Sivapithecus, a manlike fossil ape discovered many years ago in India. The geological character of the ground, however, indicated that Dr. Broom's creatures lived relatively late in the Glacial Age, by which time definitely human types such as Peking Man, Piltdown Man and Heidelberg Man had already appeared. Plesianthropus and Paranthropus thus appeared as laggard survivors of a much earlier evolutionary spurt-"conservative cousins of man," says Dr. Gregory, "and progressive cousins of the modern apes...
...family. For last January peregrinating Director Mann set out for the East Indies, sponsored by the Smithsonian and the National Geographic Society. Among collectors' items he particularly hoped to pick up were some giraffes for the delight of younger zoo customers, and a husband for Susie, his orangutan. While he was gone the WPA promised to rebuild and enlarge his zoo for his new acquisitions...
...professional championship of the U. S. Among the Packers' stars favored to win it are: Halfback John Blood, whose service record of 13 years is the longest in the League, whose size (6 ft., 190 Ib.) is pygmy compared to a team averaging 20 Ib. more, and whose orangutan arms make him equally dreaded as a pass catcher and a tackler; End Don Hutson, whose 34 catches this season broke the League record; Arnold ("Flash") Herber, whose accuracy has enabled him to throw completed passes totaling 1,225 yards, which is not only a record individual total but more...
...Freddie Steele, orangutan-fisted boxer of Tacoma, Wash.; the world's middle-weight championship; by out-pointing Syracuse's Charles ("Babe") Risko in 15 furious rounds; in Seattle...
Died. George Bistany, 45, famed animalcatcher, superintendent of San Francisco's Zoo; of high blood pressure, a kidney ailment and grief; in San Francisco. Last November the Zoo's prize orangutan "Ginger" died of poison. Its keeper, Jack Bamberger, promptly took to his bed, died two days later of a heart ailment and grief. Superintendent Bistany, who credited "Ginger" with having saved his life when he was attacked by another ape, also fell ill. Explained he: "I don't know what happened to me. Ginger was my friend. He could lick 30 men." Two days after Bistany...