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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1957-10-03, Page 7• About Elephants in one way, elephants are like people: Some are smarter than others. There are those ele- phants who, when themonsoons have caused a logjam in the rivers, can sopt the key log and without advice frons the mahout — pull it free. Despite this display of tech picasprowess, the elephant's in- telligence ntelligence has been overrated (most cocker spaniels are at least as smart). They have a fairly good memory, but experts say that ifelephants were truly never to forget a dirty deed, there would be very few ele- phant trainers around. Despite his size and his strength, the elephant is rather delicate. His trunk is so pow- erful that it can uproot trees — yet sensitive enough so that the animal can pick up a pin with it. A French scientist once set out to count the number of separate muscles in an elephant's trunk. He gave up when he reached the 20,000 mark. Elephants are subject to sev- ere stomach cramps i2 exposed to cold weather for any length of time and will start trumpet- ing with pain. They can be cured, however, by a large buck- et of gin and ginger. After tak- ing the cure a few times, the elephant becomes a crafty alco- holic, • feigning pain and moan- ing pitifully for his daily swig. Elephant steak looks like a prime cut of beef, but when Booked it tastes like pasteboard and clings to the teeth like soft glue. Though those culinary dis- tinctions attract the natives who will swarm over a carcass look- ing for a choice cut, Westerners are . apt to find the meat no delicacy. Elephants don't live to be 150 er more. They die at 65 or there- abouts, and they don't go to any mysterious graveyards to do it, (Where "graveyards" have been found, the tusks were always missing — proving the elephants were driven there and killed for the ivory.) Elephants are very nice ani- mals —'kind, thoughtful, and smart enough to have fine work- ing conditions. After an ele- phant puts in four -hours of work, he stops. He may go swimming, or eat, or just stand around with his hind legs cross- ed, thinking — but he's through or the day. — From NEWS - EK. Dingo Dogs Queensland, Australia, was bustling last week and this Meant bad business for the filveneus Old increasingly dar- ing dingo. Squads of workmen were pressing ahead with the ob of stringing a fence 3,500 les long and 5 feet high, to • eep the dingo back from the Lich, remote grazing land of northeast Australia. It will en- close an area larger than Texas and serve as a second line of defense to a "dogproof" fence stretching from the Gulf of Car Gentaria in the north to the reat Australian Bight in the South. The single object of all this is the slant -eyed carnivore, an insatiable killer with a price of up to $10 on his head. Each year some 2 million sheep and count- less cattle fall prey to the beast. Though, the new fence will cost Queensland $1 million it will be well worth the expenditure — if it is •successful. Storms, however, wash away fences; sandstorms cover them up and large bush animals, the ebul- lient kangaroo and wombat among them, trample them down. Paradoxically, the decimation of one of Australia's traditional pests has led the dingo to invade man's domain. By importing a vicious strain of myxomatosis, Australians killed off millions of rabbits. The shortage of the succulent rabbits has forced the dingo to change his diet. With Australia suffering her first; drought since the *ar, they have ranged in huge packs to sheep and cattle country from the rough arid western scrub. This year's casualty list for sheep may rise to 3 million. Australians are divided on how to control or eradicate the dingo. Sonne favor fences others trapping. In mountainous New South Wales, horsemen round up packs of dingoes and drive them into a line of guns. Hope- ful cattlemen have recently tried aerial baiting, packing half a grain of strychnine into a pellet of brisket fat, then dive- bombing water holes . and sus- pected feeding areas. Unfortun- ately, birds and insects.' usually beat the dingo to the poisoned pellets. Biological -warfare ex- perts have considered infecting then with distemperand mange, but are wary of creating an immune strain. The only hope for his extinction now lies in the discovery of some virulent dis- ease peculiar to the dingo. Harassed cattle and sheep owners can take small consola- tion from one theory advanced by the French anatomist Baron Georges Cuvier in 1827. A din- go cannot swim. A good deep billabong will keep him out of the pasture anytime. — From NEWSWEEK. Rungs Of Doom From time immemorial man has used wood for one purpose or another, including crime. 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