Word: rhinocerosity
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* Marmosets, baboons, gibbons and probably most other monkeys have multiple births. So, rarely, do horses, cows, sheep, deer. Some species in which multiple births have never been recorded: whale, porpoise, zebra, buffalo. African antelope, giraffe, camel, llama, sea lion, walrus, hippopotamus, sloth, anteater, and the major varieties of elephant, rhinoceros...
Only a few of the larger animals give Frank Buck occasional trouble. This picture shows him dancing uneasily around a cobra, escaped from its crate; herding wild elephants into a corral; scooping a man-eating tiger out of a hole in the ground; catching a leopard in a snare. Other...
Chief enemy of African game, decided the conference, is the professional trophy hunter. Traffic in trophies, which may be anything from a stuffed aard wolf to a zebra's skull, will be strictly supervised. Hunters must prove that their trophies have been legally obtained. Ivory and rhinoceros horns conveniently...
Lumpy-hided, gargoyle-headed, hideously monstrous, the single-horned Indian rhinoceros is fine to look at in a zoo but no creature to have around a palace. King George V lately got one as a present from the Maharajah of Nepal, promptly turned it over to the London Zoo. That...
Stretching back beyond the Century of Progress will be a replica of Fort Dearborn (1803), a Lama temple from Jehol imported by Vincent Bendix, a Mayan ruin reproduced after the approximately 700-year-old original in Yucatan by Tulane's Frans Blom. Climax of the backward time flight is...