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Artificial Musk. The male musk deer ranges Central Asia with an alluring odor. Perfumers cannot get enough of the natural musk for their trade, have got chemists to produce trinitro-t-butyl toluene which smells exactly like the real stuff. At Washington, Julian Werner Hill and Wallace Hume Carothers of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. described new ways of imitating musk...
...Arbor last week the University of Michigan's Zoologist Lee R. Dice announced to the Michigan Academy of Sciences his discovery that this ear defect is hereditary not only in the mice of Japan. He has found it in four strains of the common American deer mouse. Because this offers one of the few non-human instances in which abnormal behavior can be traced to a definite hereditary characteristic. Dr. Dice believes that further study of affected mice may help man to understand how he inherits nervous peculiarities...
...difficult position," mused Governor Tang. "I don't even know where my troops are." Correspondents left him slumped in his great chair, staring vacantly out the window at some deer which nibbled unconcerned in the former deer park of the last Chinese Emperor. That night the distracted War Lord fled from Chengteh to no man knew where...
...motoring one day last December Mayor Peter E. Demarest of Oakland, N. J., encountered a pack of wild dogs trailing a deer. With a single bullet in his gun he brought down the dogs' leader, a powerful 150-lb. mongrel shepherd. Another dog in the pack viciously charged the Mayor, who had to leap into his car, bang shut the door. Last week he sought revenge...
...wild dogs have been ranging northern New Jersey's game-filled Ramapo Mountains for some 15 years. Dwellers on lonely farms or town outskirts have shivered at the sound of their baying in the night. Hunters have found their trail in the hair & bones of many a deer and rabbit. In their veins runs the blood of abandoned or runaway pets-German shepherd, Airedale, collie, hound. Members of one pack are apparently crossed chow and hound, look like big red foxes...