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■. Object of the affections of Ernest G 
cal Park, was a brown, furry creature 
tacking a platter containing a mixtur 
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a water civet 
Walker announced proudly, 
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WITH AN APPETITE FOR 
WATER CIVET, BROWN AND AGIL 
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; The Zoo’s acting director is a smaL 
this specimen, which arrived yestei 
via New York, especially struck his 
its rarity. This is the first civet e\ 
irigton and Walker believes it may 
bought into the United States. 
Collected by the Smith^onian-Firestone expedit 
to West Africa, led by Zoo Director William M. Mi 
the unusual animal was one of approximately ^ r 
arrivals that went on exhibition in their per man 
quarters yesterday. 
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