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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Thursday March 25, 1982 - Page 24 made news for their roles in Animals in 1981 headlines Those field mice infected with bubonic plague that threatened President Reagan on his California ranch and the stranded shark that got roped by Vice President Bush on a Maine beach were not only wild creatures that made news in 1981. An assortment of animals that Noah would be proud of crept into headlines around the world t Medflies on the West Coast, gypsy moths in the East, a duck with an arrow through her breast, a baboon that turned in a false fire alarm, and a deadly snake that pulled duty as a night watchman were among newsnon-hum- an makers. Donna the Duck was the victim, and then heroine, of one of the most bizarre wildlife stories. tiny mallard became a national celebrity when she appeared at a Las Vegas, Nevada, country club with an arrow through her breast. After two weeks of trying veterinarians finally caught her, removed the arrow, and released her. At last report Donna was continuing her charmed life on a pend in the middle of the clubs The golf course. Nipper, a ferret, made news and ferreted out some news by lending a hand, or paw to the British Broadcasting Corporacreation. Tbe tiny weasel-lik- e ture pulled TV cables through a twisted underground duct connecting Buckingham Palace to commentators outside and thus enabled BBC to broadcast to the entire planet a part of the commotion surrounding the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana. Not all animals were so helpful Alexis, a baboon, brought six fire trucks racing to the scene when she grabbed the lever on a fire alarm box next to her quarters in Baltimore research lab. a Trouble is, there was no fire. Another invention of man, the drainpipe, nearly cost the life of a and white cat named black Squeaky in Reston, Virginia. Instead he cost his owner $1,500 when it took two crews of plumbers two days to dig Squeaky out of an underground trap into which the drainpipe and his curiosity had led him. On the other hand, a alligator got out of his outdoor pen at the Denver Zoo without any help from humans. The gator, inevitably named 'Albert, was captured 28 days later in a park 45-po- und pond. mess of reptiles made news when a Georgia dealer in protectA ed wildlife handed over a bag containing a dozen eastern indigo snakes in exchange for $1,200. ms customer turned out to be a federal agent who had videotaped snakes cam transaction. the Other reptiles illegally traded and seized by the feds included Indian pythons, Gila monsters and a Jamaican boa. , It was in London that a very venemous cobra was placed inside a showcase containing the scientific research. At Athens, Ohio, biology researchers trans- the genes of rabbits to mice and then to their offspring a breakthrough . in genetic engineering that could lead to the transfer of traits from one species to another. In an Oak Ridge, Tennesse, la- ferred boratory, crickets gave scientists some clues to dangerous ' "V cluded two dolphins named Lady and Molly whose services were sought by a Florida ship salvager to locate silver bars in the wreckage of two Spanish galleons that sank off Key West in 1622. Several species of wildlife named Washoe bit off the middle finger of his right hand during a, visit to the Universitys Institute for Primate Studies. In Montgomery County, Mary- land, a medical researcher was fined $3,015 for failing to provide adequate care for six monkeys in his lab. But in Ann Arbor, Michigan, another medic operated on a side effects of contaminants in synthetic fuels by sprouting extra eyes and heads. Not all lab critters enjoyed their, assigned roles. In an experiment reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a ferret injected with a respiratory virus got even with the experimenter when the scientist bent over to check the animal for watery eyes and other symptoms. The ferret sneezed and the researcher caught the virus. All kinds of critters tangled with electricity. An owl knocked out a power system in Klamath Falls, Oregon, when it landed on a hot line with a snake in its beak. The snake caught fire and 5,200 homes went dark. In a prison at Dallas, Texas, a hungry four-fo- ot king snake, looking for prey, knocked out three generators for three hours. In Washington, D.C., it was an errant squirrel that caused a blackout on Thanksgiv- goes that ornament the infield at the Hialeah race track mated successfully for the first time in nine ing Day. years. 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