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> The Peccary or Javelina, as the Mexicans call him, is a handsome wild cousin of the pig family. T HIS True Life adventure is the first feature length film of its kind Walt Disney has made. It is a drama as old as time but seldom seen by human beings, for Nature has set the stage in waterless desert and has provided the actors—the animals, insects and birds who live there. Set in the Great American Desert, the cameramen-naturalists have photographed animal life undisturbed by human en- croachment, working out its own long destiny in accordance with the inscrutable designs of Creation. In the desert’s scattered reaches there is one common characteristic—there is little or no rain. Organ cactus, joshua trees and bitter herbs march across the vast solitudes. Rivers rushing down from lofty forests are lost in thirsty sands. This is no place for soft and pampered things. It proved too terrible for the Ancient people who lived here in cliff and canyon long ago—predecessors of the Hopi and Moqui, the Navajo and Apache Indians. Only the relics of their day are left in crumbled ruins, where bats now swarm and the hawks nest secure. The background of this remarkable film. Love finds a way—amorous scorpions dance their strange wooing in which they interlock their big claws and he leads her in a rhythmic rigadoon. This scene in the film is set to a hillbilly square dance. 4 , /y » ' ' c ■ '* , / - / * * At dusk thousands of bats emerge from their cavern home. A Pepsis wasp wins a battle with a tarantula. She must sting the tarantula into a comatose state as host for her larvae to perpetuate her species. A Kangaroo Hat combs his whiskers before making a call. A young lynx or bobcat hisses defiance at a band <ff prowling peccaries. A red-tailed hawk, implacable A couple of armour-plated desert tortoises enemy of the whole rattler tribe, fight for the favour of the lady who wai*s the swoops down for a kill. outcome in the background. The Ringtailed Cat is one of the shyest A sudden traffic stop in the sandy highways — A hapless little garter snake meets his nemesis creatures in the great desert family. a shy, harmless Kangaroo rat mother meets in the swift and ruthless Roadrunner. the lethal little serpent, the Sidewinder.