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...madam called Fauna who runs the Bear Flag and once masterminded a flourishing South American export trade in shrunken human heads. She keeps a former competitor's noggin in a desk drawer to remind her of the good old days...
Winning Devil. Coorinna, unlike Bandoola, poses as a novel, but is really a straight bit of nature reporting by Erie Wilson, a "volunteer ranger under the New South Wales Fauna Protection Panel." His hero, Coorinna, is a rare breed of marsupial wolf, now nearly extinct. The life and times of Coorinna are largely a matter of fighting to eat and eating to fight. A sly and winning devil, Coorinna meets a violent end, but not before Author Wilson can treat him and the reader to such exotic Australian fauna and flora as striped bandicoots, ti trees and brush-tongued lorikeets...
...Orient, Mogambo has now been converted into the latest in a series of technicolor African epics which includes King Solomon's Mines, The African Queen, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Following the example of its predecessors, the film devotes considerable footage to sweeping shots of the varied flora and fauna of Kenya and Tanganyika. Unfortunately, even a panoramic screen and stereophonic sound cannot destroy the feeling of having seen all this before. Leaping gazelles, prowling lions, and flamingos rising against an orange African sunset are getting just a little commonplace...
...shouldn't be blind to the flattery the right shape can add; the sailor hat, the princesse, the cloche, the cartwheel, the turban, the coolie-surely one of these set off your face. Of course, if your desire softness and subtley, you can luxuriate in flowers, fruits feathers, wires fauna, flora, and rope...
Tarpans, explains Dr. Heck in the latest Oryx, journal of Britain's Fauna Preservation Society, flourished as long ago as the Ice Age. Stone-Age man hunted them for food and decorated his caves with their pictures. The last true wild horses were found in the 1880s by the Russian explorer Przewalski. But the shaggy animals which Przewalski brought back from Dzungaria were heavy-boned, with long and awkward heads. They may well have been the ancestors of today's cart horses. There are some Przewalski horses still living in the Hellabrunn Zoo, and Dr. Heck began...