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`Tho• 11 thought thin was
.Se�`�,o; g
to ' be: a • dissertation_ - -on.,... ,gird';
Beaverbrook, can put away their
;a�tpeeta'tions. We are to, deal.
th,`^some--nett nfor'mation. on
the Castor Canadensis, alias the
• Deaver,', one of .' the most able
engineers, the coo,untry. has
rciduceil`'-and.one which plys.its
p�refession right across the land
from. sea td Asea. •
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Tfie 'Institution of Civil
.Engineers whichegot its Qharter.
in 1818, chose -the" Beaver as one
of the,. supporters. twits, crest in, •°
-recognition of that animal's
considerable engineering
abilities. The Institution's motto
"Scientia et Ingenio" also
in'dicaltes' that ,the- Beaver
represented Science.. _ ..
It was a cause of some
surprise' when the maple leaf, was
chosen, or was it dictated, as the
emblem for the new national
flag of a country which did not
support the tree across its whole
Width': Long before Lester
Pearson . exchanged the . fig -leaf
for the maple, the " more
representative emblem had_been
the beaver. Botir the Canadian
Pacific Railway,(1885) and the --
Post, Office (God bless it!):.
-recognized this long----ago—andr
while the former.chose it as their
trade -mark, the latter gave it
immortality on; its earliest
stamps.:It was only recently that
theC :lf. cTropp the beaverin
favor of one of'those-ealigrahic
puzzles so dear to -the heart of
the Canada Council.
' One of the questions friends
and.' observers of the beaver
. nevr answered was .whether its
actions ,were. the_ -' result •of
intelligence, or instinct.: A recent
book: "My Beaver Colony" *by
Lars Wilssons-ainswered this
queryonce and for all.
Dr. Nilsson in his studies in
Sweden, • removed -some beavers
from;, their parents and natural
habitat before. they "could learn
-anything- from other beavers.
° 'Placing. them 'temporarily in a
terrarium, he saw them going
through -M the -motions-,„ in.
empty air, which beavers use to
build the dams- and lodges, of._
which any__ human engineer
might be proud: The young
beavers were kepi: in this room
with' ;water,: for bathing.. and a
; suppler of 'sticks. They had no-.
. facilities for digging,. but '
nevertheless, they went" through
, the motions, push ng imaginary '
earth towards the wall of their
• • room and making_ as though to
packit tight with their paws.
'I'he beavers were doing
something they had never.done
before, .nor had they seen other
beavers doing it,. They wete
foliowiig - inherited . patterns of
behaviour, . which is the essence
of instinct.However, it is -
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because they are so skilful With
their . forepaws, used more as
hands, . that people . have
suspected them of-+-- -being
intelligent. :•
Televi ion's longest running sharn•shooter a In 1ne years, ,02 golf matches
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Their � . ., , . - to eros o . .
fact that
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'and most popular filrzred golf .file n -one,. have heed, timed .fors the: D
"dam; they worked fiicst on the . $
how `
sg eu's VVond rftik 'V Qrld - series in about 5O countries.
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.. ' . R , . . o o re inns. lir n .. ..., ,
one which ran faster. �h G l f tli tlk of partieulai t t t
t tach f f B vi t e a
i ti be' al t -Canadian I� exs � h
In the _e den .days, When there
was • aii.--option of sending irnaii�
'Office
or colleetf Y the Post
Office ; made a•'. • refund to
addressees who found. they had'
paid '`.postage on . anonymous
letters,
reac . o . being
ways, o e on th CB n work w
season , C ,.f�� .:. � .
- u . or `f tGeorgedson is.
the„mese urgent, swz to ' � Canada's
pm � , . .: � Saturday; Jalx �Dy frb>tnl5 to:. fan, da • �u
tari'cklilsse
first.. d . ‘ a the 12 leading,,
�fi p.m. 'The. xiies.•vrulalsoba -amu�igIx
on s hand reared beavers professionals competing. in the
televised on . the NBC network.
had . -never sesta 'a tree felled.untfi ” start%ng one week later, January "tournament and that Winnipeg's,
they .were „set loose. At. once ],7, St. Charles Country :Club is the
they set, to work on trees, felling site of one .of the sena-final
in 'color; . the 1970 matches•
them lilfe `veterans. Setting up 'a • , .iTzr'ied
four -inch' diameter birch' to see if .. sores 'offers the pleasing blend
Their favorite -food • is., aspen they could manage larger trees,' of exciting golf,, eye eateh ng The matches will bes own on
bark. The beaver takes the twig • he says . *"even 'an old scenery and .regional-travile es ° seven 'successive. ' Saturday
i loyal afternoons starting with: the-
or stick in both pa'Vvs, presses, experienced beaver' would have � which has.. won :such a
oneend into. the `palm' of one had nothing to .be ashamed of." ' following T; among television January 10: Buenos Aires match.
'' Jitnmy Dernaret, , one of off-
paw, cupping its 'toes, around it. By contrast to a all_ this:skill, . ' vtewe,�rs. ,The golfing competition ' .: , >;.
the other. end of the avers are quite into ble of will again be in ,the form. of an all-time greats, will again analyse
It gripshe 9 .. , international
e courses and the la th
stick 'Withthe' other forepaw and, meeting a situatibn•-.for which international elitnination th• play,
revolves the stick. _crackly' and their inherited behaviour pattern t o urnament, a format • famed Gene Sarazen..acting as
evenly, moving it slowly has not catered,,.For example a introduced last year series host.
tideway*, so that .the incisors of beaver never knows which way •
e tree tt ells will all �,nd
ccaslon.itialls on the Beaver.
Field Book ..--W Weiskopf and Dave Stockton
invented a form of lathe for his Natural'History says of the hake on veteran Roberto De
delectation. In view of its stubby beaver: "Ati animal of Vicenzo on his home c arse at
clawed toes, this is not-•- headwaters, where pit builds Q
intelligence, but rather, greatBuenos Aires, Argentina?"
g $3,000 dams free."Beavers mate , ., Competitors i n' t h e
the lower jaw can strip off the the i ' f ' f on In the opening match on
bark _right_ to- thea .__ end._ ". o ' January 10 two young Ameiiican
PGA - tour= . players, •' 'on
Instinctively the beaver has Palmer's of
-..,
In addition to entina and •
Canada, the 1970 show takes
viewers ..to. Tobago,- Brazil- and
Mexico, and to 'two_ courses in
the US:A. one at New Orleans
and the other at San Francisco.
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dexterity. . • = foyr life and breed early in thetournament
.. , tournament besides De Vicenzoi,
T.he 1970 • tourn inept
The beaver .builds its lodge by year, with litters of from two to :Stockton, " Weiskopf and
involves -a. total of seven matches preliminary li Dan '
piling up sticks; plastered with eight, born three months later. --four p ary matches. with Knudson are: Bob Murphy, mud, then° gnaws . Its -way, These mature in three years and three Mayers each, followed by Sikes, Miller Barber, Lee Elder,
through to make passages and a range in weight from 60 pounds two' .'semi-finals' each year
featuring George Archer, Julius Bor -year's
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chamber inside. to an average df 30 pounds. Ag Trevino and last -'s
Another action which 'excites full meal ' is three pounds of two 'wirtne of the preliminary° champion, Frank Beard.
matches • and ' the final match a
adiiiiration is th ' way. beaver_ aspen hark. The entrance and involving the winners of the two
stuffs up every -hole to make its
dams watertight" Wilsson's baby
beavers went round stuffing
sticks into every hole they could
find in their room, .and It w
obvious than to a' beaver, a hole
is anathema.._Wilsson found that
beavers: could do a much better
job of making ' mud stick in a
hole than ' he, `• could with.his
hands. He -noticed too, that
When the heavers • were
eve11`lbually placed Ma stream,
arid they had built -a dam, that
of two.trickles, of water over the
• exits from the chamber ,of., the
lodge are and
water to deter an
enemies, d `to' ensure the. right
height .of, water, dams are built.
as Often a supply of `sticks for food
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aund rom
54 West St.,Goderich
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is- collects hear the. lodge and
used only in winter. Canals are
also built on occasion to swim
branches t�. the lodge. It is
only
recently that their darn building
for flood : control has been
appreciated • as being more
valuable than theirpfur.
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