Word: wildebeest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer work-vacation, Bobby pushes on to Dar-es-Salaam, on Africa's east coast. From there, Tanzanian game wardens will help him in his study of African wildlife-and Bobby will doubtless work with them in their efforts to conserve the herds of elephant, rhinoceros, giraffe, wildebeest and antelope that roam the rugged Serengeti Plain 150 miles from the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. Taking care of animals is nothing new to young Kennedy: at home in Hickory Hill he has tended over a crawling, fluttering menagerie of one iguana, one scaly teju, two hawks, two geese, six chickens...
...study of life on the Seren-geti-Mara plains of East Africa, one of the greatest remaining game reserves, where more than 1,000,000 animals roam free. Two Smithsonian Institution ecologists, Dr. and Mrs. Lee Talbot, guide the cameras, which single out the bedraggled and ungainly looking wildebeest as the most important animal on the plains...
There was nothing Disneyish about the goings-on - no frogs dancing the frug, no kissing coots. When a leopard set out to stalk a wildebeest in a recent episode, the victim all too surely was brought to earth. "If you are going to show the truth," said Kingdom's Producer Don Meier, "you cannot avoid the proposition that tooth-and-claw battles take place every day in the wild kingdom. We would be doing a dis service to our viewers if we glossed that over." Realism has paid off. Wild Kingdom, carried on 185 NBC stations, stands...
...where she fishes and photographs game. She has caught tiger fish in the Chobe River in Bechuanaland and fat, Dark Continent catfish in Southern Rhodesia's Lake Mcllwaine. Last summer, from a distance of less than 60 feet, she photographed a lioness chewing up the carcass of a wildebeest...