The first wonderful microscopic arrangement which Curator Ditmars invented for filming insects shows us the Peruvian Tegu, a powerful but ugly looking monstrosity, whose principal amusement seems to be the robbing of poultry coops. This particular specimen apparently has had a successful career, for he seems well fed and has difficulty in getting out of his domicile. Next we are shown the Gila Monster, the only one of the lizard tribe which is poisonous, and there are two thousand of them. It is an inhabitant of Arizona and New Mexico, and the one in the Bronx Zoo is one of the very few which have been able to live in Northern latitudes. Another variety of the same family, although looking very much more like a frog, is the Mexican toad. Next we see the Zonue and Aspikey, the latter a resident of African deserts, and one of the strangest freaks of nature. Another member of the lizard family, which comes from Australia, is caned the shingle-backed lizard. Though gifted with a great bump of curiosity, he wisely decides not to bother the gigantic snider. Next in this one-ring circus we are introduced to the clowns, African chameleons, whose physiognomy nature has cast into a form grotesquely resembling the clown’s makeup for the sawdust ring. These little animals apparently have had to climb most of their lives, for they are provided with wonderful apparatus for climbing any obstruction which stands in their way. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: No rating yet | |
Released: | December 9, 1915 | |
Genres: | Documentary Short | |
Countries: | United States | |
Companies: | Powers Picture Plays | |
Crew: | Raymond L. Ditmars | |
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