Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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When the curator of a zoo needs an unusually large cobra for his snake collection or when a circus man wants a small elephant to do balancing tricks, he tells a professional animal catcher about it. The animal catcher takes a trip to the native habitat, brings back one which is the exact size and shape required. For 18 years, Frank Buck has been going to Asia on such missions, has been furnishing U. S. cities with prize exhibits, "firsts," only animals of their kind in captivity, etc., etc. Fortnight ago he published a book telling what an animal catcher...
...public barks last month (TIME, April 14). Last week, the Newfoundland Labrador Film Co. was developing talkies of seals just made in Labrador and Raymond Ditmars, famed curator of the New York Zoological Gardens, who has already made a sound film of a fight between a mongoose and a cobra, was preparing to make a talkie in an anthill...