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...stunt resolved into a none-too-subtle suggestion that well heeled alumni should share the wealth with Princeton. Crimson rooters were befuddled by the whole affair because at a distance, one of the tigers looked very much like a whiskerless rodent...
...years Ellerman has been gnawing away at his life's work: an exhaustive source book called The Families and Genera of Living Rodents. Last week his longtime dream was nearing realization as he put the finishing touches on the third and final volume. The completed work is intended to do for rodent zoology what Samuel Johnson's dictionary did for the English language...
...general, rats study men more closely than men study rats. Mr. J. L. Nicholes, rodent specialist, is not only rough on rats (he claims to have killed 25 million), but .he is one man who has had his eye on them. Recently he published a book, Vandals of the Night (Publication Press, Pasadena; $2.50), which contains the hoarded fruit of his long, close scrutiny...
...native of Argentina and nearby countries, the nutria is a rodent that looks rather like an uncivilized (no dams) beaver. The male weighs about 25 pounds. The female is smaller, and wears her breasts on the side of her back; she can refuel her young, like a navy tanker, while swimming on the surface. Both sexes have four large, orange-red teeth which can sever a human finger in a single snap. If you insist on playing with a nutria, Wildlifer Ashbrook advises, pick him up by the tail and hold him at arm's length...
Specialization. In Los Angeles, closed-shop contract demands were being made by the Flea, Tadpole, Worm, Cockroach, Rodent and Bird Trainers' Local of the Trainers and Handlers Union (A.F.L...