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Died. Betty, aged 10 days, fourth orangutan born in the U. S. (TIME, May 14); of starvation when maternal nervousness stopped her mother Nancy's flow of milk; in Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. Fiercely protective like all orangutan mothers, Nancy would not let zoomen touch the baby, tried to keep it alive with mouthfuls of milk from...
Heavy curtains draped a cage in Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo last week. Zoomen tiptoed up, peeked, whispered excitedly. Inside what looked like a ridiculously shriveled old shanty Irishman- wrinkled of face and belly, with reddish sideburns and a reddish fringe about its round, bald head-clung to its 110-lb. mother's hairy leg and squeaked. Daughter of the Zoo's Jiggs and Nancy, it was 10 in. long, weighed 2¼lb. and was, so far as zoo officials knew, the fourth orangutan ever born in a U. S. zoo. Zoomen had to leave...
...wall. Suddenly he screamed. From a thicket in front of him, sprang a huge tiger. It knocked him down, mangled him badly. Melvin Koontz, the zoo cat keeper, ran for his rifle, shot the big yellow beast. Alfred was taken to the hospital where he died several hours later. Zoomen said the tiger was old, had no teeth, or Alfred would have been killed more quickly...
South American jungles contain no professional animal catchers. Zoomen have to send hunters there specially or buy up specimens caught casually. Last week in Manhattan, Alexander Siemel, professional tiger hunter (TIME, April 21), and Capt. Vladimir Perfilieff, artist-explorer (TIME, Dec. 30), revealed some of their plans for an expedition which will start shortly for Matto Grosso, high and wild Brazilian hinterland, to catch animals, sell them to U. S. zoos. David Newell, U. S. puma hunter, naturalist and author,* is going with them; also John Clarke and Francis Spaulding, Manhattan sportsmen...