Word: tapirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balls that children bounce. They bounce them near the cages. The elephants gulp them down. Then they get sick." A hard rubber ball, said he, killed a hippopotamus in the Cincinnati zoo. nearly killed one in New York. It took two weeks of nursing to save Julie, the Bronx tapir, who ate a soft rubber ball. Mr. Thuman knew only one elephant who could digest rubber balls...
...There is no money to rebuild the city. Last week the brewery and the power house were the only habitable buildings still standing. Hour by hour it became increasingly apparent that the city must be, like the ancient Mayan cities of Mexico, abandoned to the vulture, the lizard, the tapir, the rank jungle. Managua was a pretty city; in its 76 years as the capital it had flourished. Among the adobe shacks were handsome villas, gardened palaces, pretentious public buildings. Managua was chosen as the capital in 1855 to end the interminable bloody rivalry of Nicaragua's chief cities...