Word: orangutans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conductor Ferruccio Burco, who had arrived for a U.S. tour a few days before: "Who is responsible for this outrage? . . . Where are your police? The boy should be in kindergarten sucking a lollipop."* On musicians generally: "Musicians have no reason to be stuffy. I've seen an orangutan play the flute." On the state of things: "The world is drifting into barbarism...
Other photographers were hosed by elephants, yawned at by lions, spat on by monkeys. One had his tripod snatched from under him by a crafty chimpanzee he was trying to photograph. Eileen Darby, who took the pictures at the St. Louis zoo, underwent an encounter with an orangutan named Henry that is still keeping her awake nights. She had to get within reach for a close-up shot, and Henry, a friendly sort, put an arm around her. When he put the other arm around her and started to wrestle, she looked anxiously at the keeper and asked...
...lost some specimens during the war. But animal prices are sky-high (nearly double prewar), and Perkins has little money for purchases. Last week, when a boatload of animals came in from Singapore, he made a quick round of dealers in Manhattan and Camden, N.J. He especially wanted an orangutan: the $3,500 price tag was prohibitive. Instead he chose a pair of cheetahs ($1,800), a sacred ibis ($65), a patas monkey...
Another answer is increased swapping among U.S. zoos. Recently Chicago's Brookfield got an orangutan in exchange for two wildebeests and a zebra...
...study in the wild of social behavior among man's closest relatives, the anthropoid apes, was released last week by Psychologist Clarence Raymond Carpenter of Pennsylvania State College. Overlooking such obvious candidates as the gorilla and orangutan, he chose to study the small (14 lb.), long-armed gibbon, which walks and runs on the ground "with greater ease than any other primate except man," whose head, like man's, "combines a fairly large brain part with a relatively small face." In the forests of northwest Siam (Thailand) toward the Burma Road, Psychologist Carpenter spent four months...