Word: rodents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colored Silly Symphonies are an unqualified success, a colored Mickey Mouse will appear next year. Artist Disney has not yet decided whether to make his famed rodent a white mouse with red eyes or black to match his character...
...kangaroo-rat, which is no marsupial, but a jumping rodent...
...acquisition of two new animals. One of these the Blackmaned Red Wolf is a very rare species inhabiting South America, or more exactly Uraguay, where this was captured. The other is a Capybrara, another rare animal found in South America and the largest existing member of the rodent family...
There is no specific cure for thallium poisoning. But J. C. Munch of Glen Olden, Pa., who last year made a report on the "Pharmacology of Thallium and Its Use in Rodent Control" for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, found pilocarpine helpful. Philocarpine, an active poison from the tropical American jaborandi shrub, stimulates many of the physiological activities which thallium destroys. It causes saliva and urine to flow, hair to grow. Mr. Munch telegraphed instructions to California on how to use the drug, took a plane to administer it himself...
...Zilk beat off the astounding animal. It scurried away, crossed the street, leaped at Lois Miller, 4, who was playing in her family's front yard. Lois screamed so loudly that neighbors came running from a block away. She tripped and fell. The mad rodent was savagely biting her scalp, her hands, her arms. When she got up it still clung to her by its teeth, embedded deep in her flesh...