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BY G: MacL'EOP ROSS ;-
For those who are interested
in the wonders of Nature, two
interesting books have appeared
o late. The first, "The Magic of
• the Senses" by. ° Vitus B.
Droscher. W.'H. Allen 50/-, deals
. r with vision, smell, touch,
. electrical and ' magnetic
-'--sensihi1ities-,-found in . animals;
more' especially the sensory
mechanism4 • which enable them
tb recognize their prey, (food),
each other,, and too find their way .
Over great distances,.
Much of the information is
new and fascinating. For -
example • the rattlesnake has
sensory organs which are so
sensitive to heat that it can
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.detect a minute change in
temperature caused by a small
living creature in 'the vicinity.
They da not need to hear,smell,
see, or feel their prey to locate it
accurately. Salmon which return
to the same stream year after'
year to spawn, . discern one
stream from another by smell,
since each stream -has a
distinctive. smell` which is
undetectable by . the human
senses;, fortunately"—
A dog' has a sense of smell •
one million times more sensitive
than a man's°which explains why
dogs are used to detect gas leaks,
marijuana, smuggled tobacco
and opium. It is to be hoped
that the Union Gas Co. will note
that fact. A well trained dog
Animal magic
might be . •much ' more effective
than the casual X-ray check they
give to joints in gas pipes. It also
gives rise to the thought of what •
purgatory, it'iitiust be for a dog
possessed of such an% exquisite
sensibility, to live in a city like
Toronto, ,
Some fish create their tiwn
electric field around ttfetnseives.,
—By Won-Me-MSthey detect Wi hat
is near them by change in, the
electric field caused itbiy the
approach of an object.
Nature's technical inventions •
are just as wonderful as anything
which is emerging from the
laboratories of the West.
The second book: '"The
Mystery of Animal Migration" is
by . Matthieu Ricard (Constable
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Reviewed by G. J. McCleave
Sam and I have been so busy Each province and state is avid canoe camper, has included
enjoying the winter carnivals and covered in a separate chapter. At phis own experiences along with
snow sports that I had almost the beginning of each chapter "is those of fellow canoeists. The
forgotten how much I missed a map giving the general location book offers all 'the information
our camping weekends. Then a of each campground. The name the beginner needs to get
recent caption in a local of the site, the location, the started, as well as being of great
newspaper _reminded me. It read closest highway, and all the assistance to the experienced •
"Camp Bug Strikes Before First facilities • available 'are easily enthusiast, who wants to take
Mosquito." ' It's • true, the readable on one line. further steps, into whitewater,
camping enthusiast doesn't have • For the beginner there• is an for example.
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to wait for the first insect bite to interesting chapter entitled Anderson covers such useful
start preparation for the world "That First . Camping Trip." �, topics as how to beat the insect
_ ____ _ roblem ti • s onk' wilderness
to start unpacking gear, but we when things as cosi,`wl^iere to go, p ,' p
•to go, and reservations are cooking, a campfire in, any
Outdoors. It ma be a little earh��"uc
can
begin to plan .� new discussed. Essential knowledge' weather, -getting:7, organized,
adventures. Our local libraries about shelter, first aid, cooking, renting or buying a canoe, and
have books on just about every clothing; packing, and checklists canoe safety. Also included are
camping subject. New campers has been condensed to enable ' • names and addresses of several
din read abbot completely the novice and the experienced canoeing organizations that send
planned trips including where camper to .enjoy the , fastest out mapped • canoe trips and
and when to travel, what to growing summer pastime. 'al 't�f t' about with juveniles which did not years.
pack, !tow to use what y„au pack,
45/-). Animals . move about. to
find foods to find a mate and to
escape enemies.. To prevent
populations, of animals moving
about in a disorderly way, they
must eventually return to thea
basea which means an- animal
must .be able to horn. Others, to
take advantage 'of new pastures,.
must make longer journeys. -and
migra e:. is book attempts • to
clear up -some -of • the unknowns
regarding the why and how of
migration.
The swallow spends half the
year in South Africa and the
other half in 'Europe, where it
breeds. To accomplish, this it
covers seyeral thousand miles in
both a, -northward and later in a
southward direction. For a bird
which weighs three quarters of
an ounce, and has a length of
five inches, this is no mean
flight;•- even if it is made at 60
miles an hour.
The Pacific golden plover
covers 2,400 miles from Alaska
to Hawaii,' while the Arc"tic tern
flies 12,000 miles each way from
• Arctic to Antarctic. Contrasted
with the English robin which
moves from one part of the the Mediterranean at the straits
garden to _ another, these are of `Gibraltar, across Sicily, by the
major flights. But birds are not Greece/Crete route, or via the
alone in migrating, for fish do ' Bosphorus,''' 'while six main
the same, but their methods are flyways have been ' plotted
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different. Gustav Kramer in between Canada and South
1950 described his experfinents • America.
with starlings_.."and • established . -
beyond dispute that they Anchovies, tunnies are
orientated themselves by the influenced by .temperature;- and
sun. A few- years • later other length of `day, in timing their
researchers established that by migrations.
night,' birds used the stars to •
guide them. Some experiments Today . there are standard'
consisted ' in releasing starlings methods for testing the emory
of animals, 'which show '
froth points in central Europe,,.' .,
to find that,they flew unerringly young are_ most susceptib• : rto _..
to their wintering • area around storing data or memorizing. or
the coast of -France and Holland: salmon this -means the memory
However this was • not the. case of smell must be retained for up
specs i orma ion o to five or six But the
scenery, fishes, types of water appear to have learnt on what to quantities needed to revive • a c;
and -weather, orient themselves, since they memory are, infirr}tesimal. Ricard _
and how to set up' camp., For the
. _ _�..- _ _. —. _ ._ _ ° .. !were ' found to ds fly towarthe
_experienced out -door • group
Spanish -Peninsula.
there are specialty books on
unusual campcooking, good SETTER HOMES & GARDENS CAMPING IN THE MUSKOKA
g, The early tagging experiments
ways to fill free time, and.hors. ,-FAMILY CAMPING REGION
on salmon ..
to get along with each other. (Meredith; 160 pages) established that they
while confined inside a small . ,
tent or trailer: Here are. a few of ' The editors of Better Homes
the outstanding, books available & Gardens worked with veteran
in Goderich and Clinton... camper and outdoor;:author. C.
B. Colby in- preparing this book.
CAMPING MAPS U.S.A. ' Mr: Colby and his family have
• AND CANADA..camped North 'America from
by Glenn & Dale Rhodes coast to coast and share their
= (Rhodes,•1964; 352 -pages) . many time "saving devices and
homes., invaded by swarms. of
frog's or toads, often both. Since
all landmarks had been '
obliterated, the only .means of
guidance mast have been the
sky. ,Then it was noted that.
when the sky was oirercast the
frogs were wandering all over the
place, completely foxed.
_ • Tho,,-nag):a :jpi s of
sandhoppers', the tiny
crustaceons which hop' about
like. fleas - on' the seashore,' are
found to be able to return to the
shore by a direct route. ;Taken
inland in a jai, ,it can be noted
that they turn towards the.. un,
but this tendency • dies . ow
after a few days as if they were -
forgetting home. Then," aken
back to the seash
familiarize themselves, they ill
head for the shore again. 'If
sandboppers use celestial
navigation then, surely" almost
every animal must use it.
But it is not the -stars alone
which guide some birds. They
rely on the landscape too, which
is proved by the migration
routes. In Europe most birds
migrating north and south cross
.to
finds that, trained from birth to co co• pensate for the refraction
recognize a particular odor, of th rays of the' sun at the
salmon Gould recognize a surface of the water;Double the
concentration obtained from height -°of the sun and the angle
miking half a bottle of gin in a seen . by the fish • is not
body of water the size of Lake automatically doubled but varies
Huron. It only+ takes two or.� according tb� the equation
three molecules for th'e fish 'to proposed by Rene Descartes*, A
apireciate. it; (Not the gin. This - fish does this without thinking,
is purely a figure of speech). However perhaps we'should.
73u"t" there aaaaaaa�rer• —1 tFrel• lance~gnat-=decry-hutrtan-perfor-niance in
animals which .also have a sense this kind of thing, for ° the
of' smell virhich' is activated by ' average man forms an opinion
odors in molecular proportions. by integrating ai number of
Tape our old friend'the factors, giving each, the `weight
elephant:. He can sense' the odor he considers correct, and coining
of ripening fruit 100 miles or up with an answer. And while it
• more away and then. migrate is not necessary to defend the
towards it. human race 'versus the animal
For a mere mortal to world, it is undoubtedly amazing
to ` find what skills in
engineering, aerodynamics,
physics, ; chemistry, and
navigation Mother Nature has
provided for her animals.
calculate ,his position using the
sextant, chronometer and atm'
tables is allengthy process taking
perhaps half an hour, but a
migrating bird achieves this as it
flies along its migratory course
without instruments. If this is
hard, consider the fish which has
at
e
A Story of Algonquin•Park
by James Dickson
(Toronto, Ryerson Press;
164 pa jesj n And not just the river, but its
This is a. story of a.canoe trip tributary. How. is all this..
Dwight on Lake of Bays to. _ - _accomplished? Well, ' from
the interior' of .what is' now mid -ocean to land, some 600 to -
Algonquin Park, and of Author 1,000 miles away, it appears
Dickson'smanytravels in they 'too use celestial navigation,
that area. ' • '
James }• but when it comes to
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• native of Scotland recognizing their particular
settled in Dickson,y the Ottawa Valley tributary of a° river, it is smell •
with his father in- 1841. In 1867, they employ.
he took up residence in Fenelon How toads and frogs find -
Falls as n an Ontario Land their way to the same breeding
Surveyor,_ and remained there t pond year after year is another
—dld timer -will pick up many tips '- for some fifty years. During that mystery which was only recently
to make his camping trips more I time he wrote this book (first solved. Within the space of 'a
enjoyable. Wouldn't you like to printed in 1886, later_ reprinted year'a'piece of open countryside
know which wildlife visitors to in 1960) and his amazingly with a pond was built over, and
enjoy and 'which ones to avoid? accurate • descriptions of the ' the pond filled M. The following
Did you know that placing salt country can be easilyfollowed, spring the_residents of this new
on a stump a short way from today.
camp" will entice. a beaver? And estate were amazed to see. their rA
•The creation of Algonquin
• that banging onpots and pans Park in 1893, helped the region
chases a bear away? retain much of its original
• At the end of the book there • aspect. The magnificence and
is a good check list along with solitude has been preserved for
names and addressesof bamping the people of Ontario, for there
Information Agencies. has been little change since
Dickson's journey. For lovers of,
A GUIDE TO CANOE CAMPING the Park, this book will add to
by, Luther A, Anderson its interest asit delves into some,
'(Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1969; of the early history of the Park.
150 pages) 'For those attracted to the area,
, , thebook will serve as a guide. It
Todsiy, with more and more includes' a • map showing
.families taking to 'the outdoors, 'Dickson's travels, identifying his
canoe camping is• growing in- campsites (still there), and
popularity as one means of illustrating many points of
"getting away froth everyone." interest.
It is the natural choice of the Leslie M. Frost, when Prime
fisherman, ekplarer, or those Minister of Ontario, wrote, "A
maerely seeking a quiet hour or reading of, this book -will, it take two away from The rush and hoped, encourage many to take
bustle of everyday life. advantage of a great Provincial
Author Luther Anderson,' an asset -- Algonquin Park."
• tested camping methods.
This - is a compact and
complete guide that' is full ' of This book deals with every •
valtiable information on over . aspect of camping in detail. The
10,000 campsites in Canada and • newcomer will find' a wealth of
the United States. do's and don'ts to get him
started on• the right track. The
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