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...anthropoid ape and monkey will be shown in the Lecture room of the Geographical Institute this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Large parts of the films "Chag" and "Rango" will be shown through the courtesy of the University Film Foundation. The best material on the gibbon and orang-utang available up to the present will supplement the talk on subjects of anthropological interest by E. A. Hooin, professor of Anthropology. Although the pictures are primarily for students of Anthropology A, the tax is open to all members of the University who are interested in picture of wild life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOTION PICTURES OF APE, ORANG UTANG SHOWN TODAY | 2/24/1932 | See Source »

...chimpanzee, and the orang-ou-tang smirk and grimace behind from bars Man, the spectator, sighs as he thinks of the wonders of evolution, and his own superior state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DANCE LITTLE LADY | 4/25/1930 | See Source »

Pessek was an orang-outang who closed her shutters when visitors bored her, who politely returned Author Eipper the peels and pips of a gift-orange. Mr. Eipper next looked at the pale faery eyes of a Bengal tigress, fixed on distance like those of some Eastern image. He watched the pelican gulp fish. He sat down and let four orang-outang infants clamber over him and played with them as an equal. From the rear he looked at the young elephants- "like forlorn village children in the Sunday pants of a corpulent parent." Only the chimpanzees disturbed him. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Life | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...invented by himself, to shoot animals unconscious instead of dead. The bullets contained a chemical which, upon entering an animal's blood stream, would anesthetize. It would presumably be easier to avoid than to hit the animal's vital spots. Collector Harris proposed to put gorillas and orang-outangs to sleep at long range, bring them home alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mercy Bullet | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...What well known animal, besides the gorilla, chimpanzee, guinea pig, two-tailed sloth, orang-outang, has no visible tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Evening This Week: Game No. 4 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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