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At the zoo he had his first sight of an ape, and was profoundly impressed by how human the orangutan seemed.
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At one time or another, Muñiz also owned a restaurant ( La Campana ) in Cayey ), a pet shop in San Juan, a zoo ( Monoloro ) in Carolina, a thoroughbred stable, and a summer camp for children (" Camp Gualí ").
At this time, the Portland Zoo Railway was constructed to connect the zoo to its former site in Washington Park and other attractions there.
At the entrance to the zoo, a pair of brick buildings that had served as trolley barns for the city of Bridgeport now hold administrative offices.
At the time he became the zoo's director, the grounds of the zoo were unkempt and the facilities run down.
At the zoo, they are welcomed by Melody who asks Debbie if she understands the rules, and then directs her to the Children's Entrance.
At the behest of Grant, a prominent eugenicist, the zoo director William Hornaday placed Ota Benga displayed in a cage with the chimpanzees, then with an orangutan named Dohong, and a parrot, and labeled him The Missing Link, suggesting that in evolutionary terms Africans like Ota Benga were closer to apes than were Europeans.
At Chester, Mottershead took Hagenbeck's idea for moats and ditches as an alternative to cage bars, and extended their use throughout the zoo, often with species that Hagenbeck had not considered.
At the end of 2007, over half the species at the zoo appeared on the IUCN Red List and 155 were classified as threatened species.
At the end of the war, the pieces of the altar which had been placed in an air-raid shelter near the Berlin zoo fell into the hands of the Red Army and were taken to the Soviet Union as war trophies.
At this time, Lin Wang was still named " Ah Mei " and the keeper of the zoo felt that the name was too feminine.
At least one zoo park, in Villavicencio, Colombia — called Los Ocarros — is dedicated to this animal.
At the time, it was the only zoo in the nation to be run by a state government ( besides the Stone Zoo ).
At, it is one of the largest " walk-through " natural-habitat zoo in the world, the first in the United States, and only one of two state-owned zoos in the United States.
At great expense, Selig created a zoo in East Los Angeles, stocked with hundreds of animals he had collected for his studio's jungle pictures and cliffhangers.
At the zoo on 28 March he had his first sight of an ape, and was impressed at the orang-utan's antics " just like a naughty child " when the keeper held back an apple.
The zoo hosts several events open to the public throughout the year, including S. T. A. R. S ( Sea Turtles At Risk ) and the " Boo at the Zoo " ( BATZ ) Halloween festival.
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At the pool's far end was the little cabana Joyce had mentioned, and on the water's surface floated scattered lavender patches of limp-looking lather.
At first it had been just a romantic dream of his, the same as the idea of finishing Oxford after the war.
At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.
At the outset of his career, Steinberg had dedicated himself to the advancement of contemporary music by vowing to do a Schonberg work every year.
At the time of his capture Helion had on his person a sketchbook he had bought at Woolworth's in New York.
At Stettin the university-educated artist, who had studied German, was chosen to serve as interpreter and clerk in the office of the Stalag commander.
At one time it seemed as if the Soviet Union had done us a favor by providing a striking example of how not to behave towards other peoples and other nations.
At this moment Mando came hurrying up to announce that the problem was solved and all Norton had to do was to sign a sheaf of papers.
At Camp Taylor in Kentucky a barracks was built in an hour and a half from timber that had been standing in Mississippi forests one week before.
At Lee Simonson's house, I had dined with Edith Hamilton, the nonogenarian rationalist and the charming scholar who had a great popular success with The Greek Way.
At the height of the first snowstorm we had, it was impossible for me to get medical attention needed during an emergency.
At the time Alex arrived he was engaged in some sort of intimate communication with the hen, who had settled herself on the nest most peacefully after the occurrences of the morning.
At the outset, the Government's spokesman explained that counsel for the Government and for Du Pont had already held preliminary discussions with a view to arriving at a relief plan that both sides could recommend to the court.
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