In Hugh Lofting's Dr Doolittle the original pushmi-pullyu was an antelope with a head at each end of the body.
In the Rex Harrison movie (left) the pushmi-pullyu was a double-headed llama.
The latest manifestation of someone pulling themselves in two directions is Stewart Stevenson, the Scottish Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change. Among his interests he lists 'private flying'.
‘Being so helpless is hard to describe’: can rescuers win the race against
time to save an orphaned orca?
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Experts are trying everything from drums to whale calls to lure kʷiisaḥiʔis
– or Brave Little Hunter – out of the Canadian lagoon she has been trapped
in...
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