Animal Cunning (1936)

The picture opens with a deer nursing her fawns. We see a young deer being fed cigarettes; a raccoon picking the pockets of a man for sugar ; a raccoon carefully washing and eating an egg. Then we have the nocturnal kinkajou, and following that an anteater whose specialized tongue makes quick work of a heap of ants. The anteater carries her young whether she is walking or hanging by her prehensile tail. Looking up through a glass, we see a Pacific pocket mouse eating sunflower seeds. A cormorant swallows a large fish. An iguana kills a vulture after shedding its tail which still wiggles like a live snake. The film closes with a dramatic fight between the iguana and a puma

Released May 1, 1936 8 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Short

Keywords: mdblist.one-actor, mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.animal, imdb.year-1936, imdb.1930s, imdb.20th-century, imdb.deer + 9 more, imdb.fawn, imdb.raccoon, imdb.kinkajou, imdb.anteater, imdb.mouse, imdb.iguana, imdb.vulture, imdb.cormorant, imdb.cougar