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...moth-eaten natural history book, lately discovered in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library describes the tiger as "a large feline of the zebra complexion which inhabits the swamps of New Jersey. For a short period every we years it migrates northward in great numbers to the flats at Cambridge, Massachusetts, to 'pawn'. After his operation the animal returns to is habitat, greatly reduced, and in a condition relatively "ractable...
...with black. The neck, shoulders, barrel and back vary from sepia and black to deep red; the belly is blackish; the tail bright red with a black tuft. The hind quarters and hind and fore legs are pale cream color, but marked with purple-black stripes, which give a zebra-like effect...
...Bells" has already gone into its fourth printing, has just returned from the Indian Ocean and the African Coast, where he played golf on some remote courses. One of his yarns concerns a country club at Nairobi. Among the trophies on the walls is a stuffed head of a zebra. It seems that a foursome, starting out after an early breakfast, encountered a lion on the third green, where it had just made its kill. One of the players went back to the clubhouse for a rifle, and potted the lion. The head of the zebra, upon which the lion...
...addition of zebra to the menu of the French Navy...
...Johnson have gone one step beyond any of their predecessors in photographing snakes, leopards, zebras and lions in private life. It's getting to the point in Africa where no zebra can take a drink without suddenly perceiving the camera click in the bushes of the water hole. And as for elephants taking a bath?they might just as well give it up as far as any privacy is concerned. All of which is a manner of saying that the present film is uncommonly realistic. For sceptics who refuse to accept this statement on the grounds that the critic...