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...only subject. Elephants are seen bowling over trees, bathing themselves, and at the climax closing in, a hundred strong, on a trio of tigers. For the first time India's rare and ugly one-horned rhinocereses are shown on the screen. Other animal principals are water-buffalo, swamp-deer, wild pigs, and a flock of vultures...
...idea of his. Seeing how the farms of Hampshire, unrolling like green quilts, were slowly pushing away the woods, he set New Forest aside as a place for trees to grow and noblemen to hunt. For a long time any rogue caught killing the king's deer there was taken to the nearest town and hanged. William and his successors rode through New Forest after stags and boars. Herds of pigs grew fat in the forest on truffles and mast; their carcasses helped feed forest keepers...
...effective was the Times story that the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was moved to investigate. The deer turned out to be a steer...
Some of the Times's friends realized with sympathy that its queer deer story was only a shade more embarrassing than a story which the Times printed in September. Receiving a flash from Buenos Aires that the bovine championship of the Argentine had been, won by an animal named Esther Bletchley Challenge, the Times sonorously reported...
...industry as a new meat source. Driver of the herd is Andrew Bahr, expert Lapp herder, who is accompanied by three other Laplanders, six Eskimos, a medical attendant and a member of the Alaskan Geographical Survey Department. Reindeer fare in winter is the hardy Alaskan lichen; to get it deer must paw through a foot of snow. In summer they graze on greens, willow buds, blueberries...