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Getting specimens for the interstellar zoo was no problem -- they battled for the honor -- but now I had to fight like a wildcat to keep a display from making a monkey of me!
It was our first day of recruiting on the planet, and the alien life-forms had lined up for hundreds of feet back from my rented office. As I came down the block from the hotel, I could hear and see and smell them with ease.