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Tarpans, explains Dr. Heck in the latest Oryx, journal of Britain's Fauna Preservation Society, flourished as long ago as the Ice Age. Stone-Age man hunted them for food and decorated his caves with their pictures. The last true wild horses were found in the 1880s by the Russian explorer Przewalski. But the shaggy animals which Przewalski brought back from Dzungaria were heavy-boned, with long and awkward heads. They may well have been the ancestors of today's cart horses. There are some Przewalski horses still living in the Hellabrunn Zoo, and Dr. Heck began...
Toynbee begins his investigation far down in the pit of history, when the Ice Age ground Europe beneath a creeping glacier. The plains of North Africa and the Middle East (now deserts) were then fertile, supporting a thick population of hunters and their prey-aurochs, oryx, etc. Among these hunters lived the progenitors of one of those broken bodies on the rock ledges of time-the Egyptiac civilization. Later, the ice retreated. The plains turned into deserts. The game fled. The hunters, too, had to retreat...
...opening this week the distinguished visitors' attention will be especially directed to a baby fringe-eared oryx antelope, a matchie tree kangaroo which looks like a small brown bear and a Hycean tiger from Turkestan...
...greatest variety of beasts are on the open plains where the enemy-beasts cannot sneak up so easily unnoticed. From a blind on the edge of a water hole, the Johnsons watched, photographed. Herds of oryx, the double-horned unicorn, wilde-beeste, kongari, eland, impalla, buffalo, zebra, came in turns to drink. Also the rare okapi. They respect and stand aside for the conceited and preening ostrich of the deadly kick. Zebra snap and fight among themselves continuously. Giraffes, "the creatures God forgot," wander about nervously nibbling at the trees too timid even to drink. Defenseless against his fatal leap...
...young, the following among other denizens of the African continent are to be secured for inspection by the U. S. public and its children: lions and pygmy mice (bumblebee size); black rhinoceroses and hyraxes; giraffes; eland (the Zoo has but one aged cow); sable and pygmy antelope, fringe-eared oryx, topi, hartebeest, bushbuck, kudu, reedbuck, duiker, impalla and. oribi; colobus and Sykes monkeys; leopards, hunting dogs; wild hogs; aardvark and aardwolves, hyenas, caracals, servals, civet cats; the giant python, spitting cobras, puff adders, black mambas, boomslangs (tree snakes); parrots, love birds, giant ground hornbills, fish eagles, secretary birds (snake-killers...