Word: treeing
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...lived some 20 million years ago and is generally believed to have given rise to both apes and man. This ape's own ancestors seem likely to have lived in Africa as well. As Exhibit A, Duke University Anthropologist Elwyn Simons offered fossils, found near Cairo, of a tree-dwelling primate 30 million years old; Simons christened the creature Aegyptopithecus. Last week, however, a team of Burmese and American scientists created a stir in anthropological circles when they announced that they had found primate fossils in Burma that may be 40 million years old. That could plant...
Stratis Haviaris--curator of Woodberry Poetry Room, reading from When the Tree Sings; Ellot...
...Edward Lear, perhaps be cause, like those masters of nonsense, he fathered no children except those of his imagination. And what children: the Cat in the Hat, the Lorax who tries to protect the environment against predators, the Grinch who stole Christmas, Horton the elephant who nests in a tree, Yertle the Turtle, the Sneetches, the Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz, the Tufted Gustard, the Stuffed Ormie...
...innocent-looking house by the side of the Florida road was in little danger of getting a speeding ticket: it was clocked at only 28 m.p.h. But a seemingly stationary palm tree was zipping along at a frightening 86 m.p.h. Or so recorded a radar unit, similar to ones used by police, that was tested for accuracy by Miami television station WTVJ. After the demonstration exposed such ludicrous errors, Judge Alfred Nesbitt ordered 950 speeding cases held in abeyance while he began a hearing on whether or not to accept radar readings as evidence...
...lived not in the outback, but in the middle of the luxuriant cosatal forest between the mountains and Bass Strait. The woods were full of tree ferns; the trees were full of parrots. The topsoil was three feet thick. A welcoming kind of land, you would think...