Word: otters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ring of Bright Water, by Gavin Maxwell. More resourceful than most current fictional heroes, Mijbil the Otter could turn on a water tap, unzip a zipper and chew razor blades. As a pet, he was hilarious and heartwarming, and so is the book Author Maxwell has fashioned about...
Zippers & Fireplugs. Mijbil, the hero of this book, was about as ottery as an otter can get. Author Maxwell picked him up as a pup in the swamp country of Iraq -unaware at the time that in finding a pet he had also discovered a new subspecies (Lutirogale perspicillata maxwelli...
...member of the musteline family (mink, marten, mongoose, badger, weasel, skunk), the otter is essentially "a big water weasel"-most northern breeds reach the size of a spaniel, but some in South America grow as big as a seal. He looks like a giant, furry snail. He swims as a swallow flies, all liquid grace. He runs like something squeezed out of a tube, and whenever he sits down he looks like a six-year-old girl in her mother's fur coat-in some species his hide is so loose that it hangs down in folds and even...
Their first trouble came from residents of the local town of Dunoon, who were looking forward to a boost to business from free-spending U.S. sailors. One night a band of about 16 Scots seized the pacifist ringleader, Lawrence Otter, 22, snipped off his four-inch beard and cut his boats adrift. "We don't like you foreigners coming in here causing trouble," they said...
...flatness-from the Adams Museum in Quincy, Mass. From the Catskill (N.Y.) Public Library came a Prometheus Bound by pioneer U.S. Landscape Artist Thomas Cole; from Canajoharie, N.Y. a sensitive Italian Head by John Singer Sargent; and from Arizona State University, John James Audubon's Osprey and the Otter and the Salmon...