Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Hawk Mountain Sanctuary is "the only spot in the world where birds of prey are protected." This is not strictly accurate: Hawk Mountain Sanctuary is the only sanctuary in the world primarily for the birds of prey, but these birds are protected together with other species of wild life in the National Parks and certain other sanctuaries. Particularly the National Association of Audubon Societies is to be congratulated on the reversal of its policy regarding the birds of prey. The Association formerly recommended the trapping of hawks, but it now urges that they be rigidly protected; and such protection...
...member of the expedition spent a month making a survey of wild life in Northern Sumatra with special reference to the orange utan and the National Park established for its preservation by the Netherlands Indian Government...
...expedition has procured a unique documented collection of primate material for further study by the comparative anatomist, the morphologist and the physical anthropologist. The first comprehensive field studies on the behavior of wild gibbons in their natural environment have been made, and these observations have been supplemented by film and sound recordings...
...expedition's cooperative program for increasing knowledge of the gibbon and other Asiatic primates included also a comprehensive field study of gibbon behavior and social relations. Systematic studies were made on 20 different groups of wild gibbons in their undisturbed natural habitat. Their behavior was recorded in several thousand feet of film, while sound recordings were made of most of the typical gibbon calls. Nine live gibbons were brought back to New York
November 4--"Christian Philosophy." Assistant Professor Wild...