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Jet Noises Tried Out on Guinea Pigs (Feb, 1951)
Jet Noises Tried Out on Guinea Pigs Jet engines make a lot of noise—enough to pain or perhaps harm your ears. To find out more about the effect of very loud noise on human ears, Air Force scientists...
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Making Fish Feel at Home in New York Aquarium (Aug, 1931)
Making Fish Feel at Home in New York Aquarium VISITORS to the famous New York aquarium are little aware, as they pass along before the amazing array of tanks containing fish of every shape and color,...
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PRICKLY PAIR (Aug, 1954)
PRICKLY PAIR TWO sharp quillers from the Amazon Jungle moved in with Marion and Paul McMichael of Brooklyn two years ago just so the husband and wife could prove a point. You see, the quillers are...
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Searching the WORLD for Queer Pets (Sep, 1931)
Searching the WORLD for Queer Pets by H.H. Dunn From all corners of the globe come the queer animals which modern fashion demands as pets—koa bears, ocelots, even boa constrictors. Read why alligators...
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Trout Enjoys Back Scratching (Jul, 1934)
Trout Enjoys Back Scratching ARDENT anglers who have too often conic out second best in their battles with the tricky denizens of the trout streams might take lessons in fish taming from Herbert Hyde...
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Surgical Boots Help Baby Elephant Support His Weight (Aug, 1929)
Surgical Boots Help Baby Elephant Support His Weight THIS TINY elephant at right—he is tiny for an elephant—is the baby of the Kensington Gardens Zoo in London. At the time the photo was taken he...
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Just How ‘Human’ Are Apes, Anyway? (Oct, 1954)
Just How ‘Human’ Are Apes, Anyway? From a Malayan jungle comes a strange story that may prove they’re more like us than not. By Lester David A SCIENTIFIC discovery of global importance may stem from...
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Turkey Crossed With Chicken to Get Tasty Meat Fowl (Mar, 1932)
Turkey Crossed With Chicken to Get Tasty Meat Fowl WHAT would you call the strange fowl in the photo at the right—a turken or a chickey? Either would be correct, for The thing is a cross between a...
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An Improved Squirrel House (May, 1924)
An Improved Squirrel House Most children enjoy having pets such as rabbits and squirrels. A house that will accommodate several squirrels, and will permit them to climb a tree without danger of...
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Strange Friendships Among Animals (Jul, 1930)
Strange Friendships Among Animals When the lion lies down with the lamb—or maybe this cat and mouse really are on friendly terms and Pussy has no idea of following her natural bent. It’s a fact that...
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NEW for the ZOO (Mar, 1950)
NEW for the ZOO Lemur, rarely seen in this country, was adopted by Harf Hoogstraal on recent expedition into Madagascar. Monkey-like creature has 14-inch tail, drinks beer and champagne, will aid...
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SUGAR MAGNATE COLLECTS SNAKES (Jan, 1954)
George P. Meade – SUGAR MAGNATE COLLECTS SNAKES SUGAR, snakes and swimming may seem like rather unrelated subjects—but to 69-year-old George P. Meade of Gramercy, La., they are all fields of major...
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ELEPHANT DISPLACES LION AS KING OF BEASTS (May, 1929)
Well that’s a useful article… ELEPHANT DISPLACES LION AS KING OF BEASTS LIONS have been enjoying the title of “King of Beasts” which really belongs to the elephant, according to Harry C. Ostrander,...
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Chopper Checkup At the Zoo (Nov, 1954)
Chopper Checkup At the Zoo DESPITE the wonderful pain-killing techniques developed recently in the field of dentistry, most people are still frightened to death by the very thought of having their...
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Model Monsters (Aug, 1945)
Model Monsters Copied live or more times lifeline. ordinary insects are earful, fantastic creatures. BY ALICE GRAY Senior Technician, Department of Insects and Spiders, American Museum of Natural...
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Milking Cows From a Swivel Chair (Oct, 1954)
Milking Cows From a Swivel Chair You can just sit back and let the cows do most of the work in this modern unit. THE dream of farming by push-button came a whole lot closer to reality this year when...
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Want Trotting Speed? Try a Moose Team! (Dec, 1941)
Want Trotting Speed? Try a Moose Team! Albert Vallancourt, French – Canadian woodsman, has the fastest pair of trotters in his neighborhood— a team of moose which he raised from babyhood at his farm...
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How Pregnancy Tests Work (Mar, 1964)
This is a whole hell of a lot less convenient than “pee on a stick, see if it changes color”. Living in Portland, my first thought was: “But what will the vegan girls do?”. Also, while he is a...
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COWS EAT SAWDUST AND THRIVE ON STRANGE DIET (Dec, 1930)
I found the 1922 preliminary report on the process along with the 1926 study done on the composition, digestibility and feeding value of the hydrolyzed sawdust. From the 1926 article: “The method of...
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ODDITIES OF LIFE (Sep, 1915)
ODDITIES OF LIFE SCISSORS GRINDING UP TO DATE THOSE who are inclined to regard the scissors grinder as a dull sort of fellow, who is content to push a cart with a tinkling bell through the streets,...
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How to Tame Wild Humming Birds (Oct, 1952)
How to Tame Wild Humming Birds RALPH J. AYER, a farmer living on a rural route out of Eastonville, Colorado, has a hobby that requires a great deal of patience—that of taming wild humming birds. The...
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Did Prehistoric Man Kill Sloths in Old Nevada Cave? (Oct, 1931)
Unless sloths used to be a whole lot quicker (video), I don’t think this would have been much of a fight. Did Prehistoric Man Kill Sloths in Old Nevada Cave? Mute evidence of what may have been a war...
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Surgeons Save Life of Huge Python (Apr, 1923)
Surgeons Save Life of Huge Python BY PERFORMING two operations within two weeks—probably the first attempt to apply surgery on such a scale to the treatment of reptiles— surgeons recently saved the...
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A New Way of Keeping the Wolf from the Door (Oct, 1932)
A New Way of Keeping the Wolf from the Door IN THE drought-stricken section of North Dakota, Ed M. Canfield, of Williston, and his wife, Dorotha, keep the wolf away from the door by dragging him in...
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FLEA FROLICS (Jun, 1946)
FLEA FROLICS Here are some highly talented fleas —dancers, pullers, racers, kickers. CAN you jump 1500 feet? Can you carry four tons? These fleas can (in proportion), so don’t look down your nose at...
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Worm by the Yard (Jul, 1952)
Worm by the Yard NEAR Loch-on-the-Bass, a tiny village tucked away among the green hills of Southern Victoria, Australia, a hunter stamps his way along the mossy banks of bush gullies. Suddenly he...
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Baby Bottles Feed Young Porkers (Apr, 1931)
Baby Bottles Feed Young Porkers WHEN a family of his young porkers were orphaned at the age of two days, John Vincent, a farmer of Wayne, Michigan, constructed a novel feeding trough to supply the...
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Phonograph Records Teach Parrots to Talk in One Week (Sep, 1931)
I want to see a parrot opera. Modern parrots seem to prefer dubstep or K-Pop. Phonograph Records Teach Parrots to Talk in One Week PETER JENSEN, a veteran bird trainer at the Luna Park zoo, Los...
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‘Hydrophobia Skunk a Fake Myth (Jul, 1932)
If it’s a fake myth, does that make it true? ‘Hydrophobia Skunk a Fake Myth THE dreaded “hydrophobia skunk” of the southwestern states is both an affectionate pet and a valuable helper in keeping down...
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LET’S BE PALS! – Odd Friendships End Old Feuds (Jul, 1940)
Is it just me, or does that cat look fake? If there is one thing the internet should be good at, it’s determining the authenticity of cat pictures. After all, that is what it’s made of (video). LET’S...
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