Word: zebra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest achievement of African Lion was in its making, the film's greatest fascination lies in its cast. The lion, the leopard, and the cheetah roam, play, and kill among giant herds of wildebeest, impala, and zebra. Stalking, killing, and the division of the spoils take place seemingly within feet of the camera. Then too, there are elephants, baboons, and hippos, scavengers and clowns. The immediacy of these photographs is so consistently startling that it soon becomes truly difficult to believe one's eyes. And yet they must be believed...
...onager is not a mule or a jackass but a rare forerunner of the donkey. One of these Iranian animals resembling a small zebra with a pink back is now at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, thanks to the cowboy tactics of Bronson M. Potter '55. Another is awaiting someone who would be willing to pay his transportation from Iran...
Having spent 20 years uv my life bein' razed up in the tuff atmosfere uv Clay Caounty's Brazil (pronounced bra as in brassière, z as in zebra, il as in ill), I think I can say TIME erred. The atmosfere ain't tuff, and the peepul ain't either...
...helmets gamboled down a railroad track near Quarouble and transfixed M. Marius Dewilde with "a paralyzing beam of light." Some Martians were blue, others were yellow or pink. A traveling salesman of the Cotes-du-Nord saw a wonderful sight: a deep rose flying cigar from which stepped a zebra-striped Martian. As he alighted, he changed color, chameleonlike, from yellow to green...
...Hellabrunn Zoo, in Munich, Germany, a small herd of short-maned, pony-sized horses grazed contentedly last week. Fine-boned and broad-skulled, with mouse-grey coats and zebra-striped legs, they look for all the world like tarpans, the fierce wild horses that Roman legionnaires found in Spain. But tarpans are extinct: the last herds vanished in the 19th century, after ranging eastward to the steppes of the Ukraine...