Word: surbaya
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...smallest of wild cattle, they belong to one of a number of rare species peculiar to Celebes and three small islands nearby.* Dutch officials were overjoyed when this latest captured pair was brought in. Forthwith the anoas were shipped off to The Netherlands Government zoo at Surbaya, Java, which generously gave them away...
...Surbaya zoo has long had with the San Diego, Calif, zoo friendly give-&-take relations similar to those which the Antwerp zoo has with the New York Zoological Park (TIME, Aug. 16). They trade rare specimens. The anoas certainly were rare; only four have ever been in the U. S. So the Surbaya zoo promptly put their anoas, accompanied by an old keeper named Topas Tenney, on board the Dutch liner Manoeran and packed them off to the U. S. The anoas traveled well. Every day they had their regular diet of hay and grain, same as any other...
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