pigmy

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Washington's National Zoo is notable for the contributions it gets from the White House�Teddy Roosevelt gave it a Somali ostrich, Calvin Coolidge a pigmy hippo, Franklin Roosevelt an Archangel pigeon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pigmy hippopotamuses, red pigmy buffaloes, pigmy elephants, swift little hairy-horned okapi all lurk in the tangled, humid fastness of the Belgian Congo's deep Itura Forest.

From Time Magazine Archive

Daintiest feeder is the pigmy marmoset, which, for meat, eats only the smallest young lizards.

From Time Magazine Archive

Permission to kill or capture gorillas, pigmy hippopotamuses, white rhinoceroses, small-tusked elephants will be almost unobtainable.

From Time Magazine Archive

Looking in the direction pointed out by Ulna, Sam saw, low down on the edge of the horizon, a number of pigmy figures that but for their movements might have passed for bunches of cactus.

From Lost in the Ca?on by Calhoun, Alfred R.