HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-09-03, Page 5Rats In The House ?
Try A Mongoose
Wendy is a pet, but she has,
some rather disturbing haoiti.
For instance, she's quite"".
ob leap,,into yoUr bed "earlyin,r
,the morning and start ..nibbling
your toes.. .
iltit,no one seems to, mind, for
Wendy is a 'pet mongoose; ,kePt
by Mr.'Maxwell Knight, the well-
known nituralistand- of ell the
great variety of animals he has
had as pets she is the undisputed
favourite.
Many people have ,.kept mon-i
gooses with varying success. They,.
are wild animals, flesh-eaters'at
that, and so -they seldom become
really domesticated,' ,h .o w e ver
tame they may *seem:
But-Wendy is an exception. I
wish you could see here She is
more tame and domesticated than
any wild animal 'Mr. Knight has
ever kept before.
One's first introduction to Wen-
dy is a unique experience. No
dog _could ,,give a more friendly
,greeting or show greater inter-
est. With much ,twittering' chat-'
ter, you are thoroughly "gone
over" and accepted as one of
the company.
Wendy s home" is a large,
airy cage with a snug sleeping
compartment attached. She is so
lively that it would be impos-
sible -to let' her have the run of
the house all the time. But sev-
eral times a day she is let out.
And how she looks forward to
this.
Her first .journey is into the
garden, for she is completely
housetrained, an unusual feature
in a wild animal. Back indoors
she is "into everything." Every-
one present must be greeted and
if it is early morning, bedrooms
have to be investigated in case
someone is still in bed.
To find a -bed occupied de-
lights her. Down the bed she
goes, twittering all the time, be-
fore reappearing on the pillow
beside the sleeper.
Elsewhere in the house she is
continually searching for pos-
sible tit-bits. Pieces of paper in
the waste paper baskets must all
he• unravelled, while handbags,
coal hods, cupboards, and, in fact,
any receptacle where f o o d
might be hidden, must all be
investigated.
Her main meals consist prin-
cipally of raw meat, liver and
tripe, but on her outings she has
all kinds of tit-bits, such as fruit,
nuts, biscuits and, cake, and she
•is very fond of sweets. She ‘likes
all kindi-of worms"and insect's.
Out in the gardenihe loves to
hunt: tem 'them aid is able to
'end dig out grubs and
.beetles from . ,beneitti the soil
with unerring eccuracy,.
Milk she will have none of; be-
ing a confirmed water:drinker,'
though she is not teetotal! If, she,
can find; •a glass ' that has .,eiin-
tainedrsherry or gin, she:Will tip
it up 'most carefully, and eagerly
•lap up the•dregs. -
Having investigated •every-
thing, ;and thoroughly tired her-
selrout, Wendy at last looks
a stiitable‘lap• on, which she ,can
curl up, to sleep like any pet cat
, ot -dog: . '
There are many, diffeeenei
kinds 'of' mongooses in Africe.
and Asia. Wendy belongs to ,a
breed from• West Africa, Better,
known are the Indian mongeoee ,
and the. Egyptian mongoose.
The one fact that everyone
knows about mongooses is that
they can kill deadly snakes,
whereas other small mammals
are usually quickly'destroyed.
The mongoose probably owes,
its superiority to a combination•
of tremendous agility and its
habit of raising its thick fur
when really roused.
This makes it look bigger than
it is and, if the snake manages
tO strike at all, it strikes short
and fails to reedit the skin.
In Africa and Asia people of-
ten keep tame mongooses to rid
their houses of snakes and rats.
To keep down rats, they were
once introduced to Jamaica —
with disastrous results.
They wiped out the rats, all
right, but they had to look else.
where for food — and turned
their attention to birds, lizards,
snakes and even domestic ani-
mals.
As the snakes, birds and liz-
ards disappeared, so the insects
on which they fed, were able to
increase unchecked and, as a
result the crops were: destroyed
by insect plagues.
Finally, it became obvious
that the mongoose must go, and
large sums of money had to be
spent on exterminating the ani-
mals that had at first seemed to
bring .salvation to the island.
LONG-DISTANCE THUMB
Tom Gorman, working behind
,the plate in Brooklyn late in
the 1953 season, became in -
tensed: at the ragging, from the
Dodger dugout, Though the
bench was obscured by shadow,
Tone was able to. identify the
miscreants. by their voices,
Finally, he blew a gaeket,
Whipping off his Mask, he been,
ed to the Dodger bench and
'roared, "Van Ctiyle—otitl"
Nobody stinted. Again the
irate Mrip bellowed, "Van Cuyie
NO movement. And
still another redie "'Van Cuyk—
one!" •
At' this, Manager Charlie
Deeseen hopped out of the dug,
but, "Tom," he Said, "if you
Went to chase Van Cuyk, 'better
buy a ticket for Kansas CitY--e
that's where I sent him yester-
days'''
IN-BETWEEN ktritlit
A Iodide was arguing With
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:Rickey said, "Your trouble, eerie
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The' ebekie, exploded.
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He Gets Dollars
From Dinosaurs
While other businessmen spend
millions every year devloping
new products to stay ahead of
the competition, New Englander
Carlton S. Nash keeps out in
front with merchandise touted as
"the oldest in the world", Nash
sells dinosaur 'tracks that are
anywhere from: 100 million to
200 million years old. "I can't
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a few Million years one way or
another doesn't make much dif-
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For the past 19 years, former
geology student Nash has been
stripping the tracks from a shale
quarry behind his home in South
Hadley, Mass„ and selling thew!
to curiosity lbvers for Use as
plaques, book ends, paperweights,
ash trays, and as stones on ter-
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hearths, In all, he has Sold more
than 3,000 tracks at prices rang-
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on size. The smallest tracks were
made by dinosaurs the size of
tabbits (not all of those pee,
historic beasts were huge) and
the biggest, up to 20 inches, are
the prints , of 8-ton, 30-foot
Gigantetere
At a rough average of $30
each Nash is as ihdefinite
about earnings as he is about
eons — Nash's take on tracks
has sO far , tette around
$00,000. Be adds to that intomt
by selling dinosaur &tarri
Stones, bbries, and fossils, Male'
eirimietere, and bedes, and by
charging admission to his dine
sear "fatift",
litit last 'week). 'modern times
Adorned to be catching Up with
bliettitee, As layer' .aftet
„layer. of Shale was removed, &no•
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less and less 'Often, Nash was
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A copies Of the Piehiettetic
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YOU:,
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Just. now peepit
Is The pceal t ? .41
Foe a few terbulent clays last
month, the waters of Sagami
just south of Tokyo, .reay„
had been lashed by a sticeeesion
Of einall typhoons, Then ..came
A morning of gray, heavy calm
In the.,,Inuggy heat of a Japan-
ese,da wn, an..„040, biro p sh eft
vessel, rode the dirty ',wet/0
slappingsagainst its bulging sides,
red-thatched head popped
through the air kick in the eete.
tee of the craft, turned .fot a last
look at the misty sea around,
and disappeared, closing the
hatch behind him, The French
Navy's bathyscaphe — FNRS
— was set to begin another,
descent into the depths of the
ocean,
Lt. Gabriel Obern, a 25-year-
old submeritler„ clambered down
the ladder which runs through
the bathyscaphe's "gasbag" hull
into the steel gondola attached
underneath. Waiting for him
there was Prof, Takeharu Kuma-
gori of Tokyo Fishery Univer-
sity, his companion on this
lonely expedition,
Within the sphere's 61/2 -foot
diameter, the two moved gin-
gerly about checking their in-
struments. Then they began
theeiSeeleree dive to the bottom
eteteee,7SSea. As they passed the
Igee:fseet mark, the last of the
, sunle;..erays • vanished. Looking
over Kumagores shoulder, Obern
saw one of the bathyseaphe's -
three portholes as a luminous
)kirk in the gloomy cabin when
he switched on the Tlbodlights
The two men watchedeseeze snow
—plankton and marine debris—
"fall" gently upward is they
'descended, -
`'At about 9,000 feet,. wed ar-
rived in a,narrow..roelty canyon,"
Obern reported later lt was the
.first time wejiad ,seen such
thing. The''.eurrentwas very
strong. I tried to.,fidd the ':bot-
tom but it was impoSSiblef L wes ,•••
afraid . our engine were not
powerful enough,. so -I decider]
to ascend. Later, divers 'inspected
the protective wings:. On either
side of the.YNRS. and dkeoyered
we hid touched both rock Walls.
This was • the most exciting try
we've ever had."
At the Uraga Dockyards on
the mouth of Tokyo. Bay that
afternoon, Obern and his chief,
..C_DniksGe-orges.Houot, erithusi-
y• discussed the submarine
eXplOations, "Too many people
taveTheen looking up instead of
do*ii,"' explained Houot. "Even
the scientists have neglected the
bathyscaphe, The craters of the
moon 'are better charted than
the bottom of • the ocean. It is
difficult to change the minds of
scientific people. They are -used
to learning, about the sea from
,tithe surface. In the bathyscaphe
4 can go down and see it as
else is,"
tiolsot'e FNRS III, with whim
he has been diving since 1954,
is nothing short of an under-
Water blimp, Conceived after
World War II by diver-!galloon.
ist Auguste Piccerd, it has a
"gasbag" hull filled with 20,000
gallene of gasoline instead of
eir. TO descend,, gaeelirie is re-
leased and water (which is 1,4
times heavier) allbeved to enter
and take its place. For the
ascent, bird-shot leanest is oleo-
trorragnetically dropped light-
ening the craft.
Many of Houot's descents, have
been made in the Mediterranean
Where he set a record of 13,'87
feet in 1954. The series of Ja-
panese dives in whidh he and
Obern are now engaged (last
month's was the sixth of nine)
are sponsored by Asahi Shimbun,
one of Japan's largest newspaper
chains, They were conceived by
Prof. Tadayoshi Sasaki, professor
of oceanography at 'the Tokyo
Fishery University, and delight-
edly publicized by science editor
Saichiro Hanzawa. The enthusi-
astic editor, hoWever, has had
his troubles with the paper's
"business side." "They say," says
Hanzawa, "that if you throw in ,
50 million yen($139,000) you
must gain sciferegeng by, increas-
ing circulati0il,~ Qt in some con-
crete formees*;effeeaugh the final
returns are teefilllianzawa, who
has been writinidramatir stories
,on the, perils of bathyscaphe
diving, can already point to a
number of concrete scientific
achievements:
C on t r a r y to oceanographic
lore, there are strong ocean cur-
rents at great depths. According
to Professoi „Sasaki, who has
been one of iHouot's passengers;,
these ;submarine drifts• "might
make:the sea unsafe as durttp-
i n g ground for, ' radiolietive
The hitherto unexplored deeps
between 1,500 and, 6;000 feet' may
prove rich fishing ground for
protein-poor \Japan. (Japanese
boats now fish to' maximum
depth-of about 800 feet.)
H o'u o t and Sasaki's June
plunge to •9,840 feet set ,a new,
record for the Pacific. — From
Newsweek.
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In Afferden, Holland, Willy
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the neighborhood' children when
he learned that a pair of geese
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themselves in the escaping air.
In Columbus, Wis., state bev-
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130 Turleycut loose with a
fast one, right over the heart
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Turley came charging off the
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So badly?"
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