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...Harry Johnston in 1901 sent back to London a piece of the hindquarters, striped reddish purple and white, which scientists took to be part of a new kind of zebra...
Alfred Daub, Seattle big game hunter, returned to Nairobi, Africa, last week, from a hunting trip, told of a new way to take wild animals pictures. Tying the carcass of a zebra behind a truck, Hunter Daub and his companions drove around the African veldt. Two lions and a lioness smelled the meat, ran after. While the animals fought for the bait, Hunter Daub sat safely in the truck, cranked his camera...
...tsetse fly, carrier of sleeping sickness, chiefly attacks antelope and zebra. Since domestic cattle run loose in South Africa, they come in contact with wild animals, are in turn infected. Natives seeing a wild herd fire indiscriminately, shoot many healthy animals. Last year 20,000 zebras, kudu, buffalo, inyala, gazelle, red hartebeest were killed. Only one small herd of the red hartebeest exists today in Zululand. Another victim of native cattlemen is the rare white rhinoceros. Because there are only 47 of these animals left in British East Africa, the government has forbidden the killing of them there. A discovery...
...headmastership of St. Mark's, he taught at Groton School, old-lime St. Mark's rival. Every St. Marksman knows that the football jerseys of "Grotties" are laterally striped in black and white. Should the Groton game be won, crepe is hung upon a stuffed zebra at the lower end of the St. Mark's dining hall where all can gloat over the shame of the Groton mule. Just as Eton has its "fives" (a handball game played between the buttresses and against the walls of Eton chapel), so St. Mark's has its "cloister ball...
...Hempel pomeranian who has crossed the Atlantic twelve times, who once flew from London to Paris to visit his veterinarian. Louis Ruhe, famed Manhattan animal importer, sent many a truckload of his wares including bears, warthogs, porcupines. When the Ruhe trucksters unloaded one slatted crate its inmate, a zebra, kicked, crashed its head against the slats, stared wildly, piteously about. The ever-watchful American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at once ordered the animal's release. One booth contained the famed Tail Waggers Club (TIME, Nov. n), which offered a dog ensemble, complete from military brushes...