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Interesting Facts
Of Bird -Life
By Professor Julian Huxley
In The Strand Magazine
Man happens to be the most success-
ful of a whole series of diverse and
fascinating experiments to deal with
the problems of the world; but we are
not therefore the most beautiful or
- the most ingenious.
Birds branched off from reptiles
somewhere about a hundred million
years ago, and were remodelled for
Bight, so that their forelimb was irre-
vocably converted into a wing. They
clung obstinately to one important
character of their reptilian ancestry—
the shelled egg, and thus debarred
themselves from ever being born into
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Finder of Missing Men
Mr, and Mrs. Harry Woodruff had been two days away
from home on their automobile tour when Mr. Woodruf's
mother passed away very suddenly, The road frown Sarnia
to Quebec has many turnings and where and how Mr. Wood -
ruff's younger brother was to locate the tourists quickly
was the question,
Twenty-one long distance telephone calls to fourteen
points on their supposed route were necessary before Mr.
and Mrs. Woodruff were found. The time lost and the
distance away meant that they arrived home in barely time
for the funeral. Had they thought to inform the home
folks each day by long distance of their itinerary, much of
the time and worry of locating them would have been saved..
Nowadays there is no point so remote that telephone
service will not reach the missing -party. All that is needed,
and that at little expense, is to regularly keep in touch by
long distance telephone.
the world at such an advanced state
of development as is possible to man
and other higher mammals.
In respect of their minds just as
much as their bodies, birds have de-
veloped along other lines than mam-
mals. Mammals have gradually per-
fected intelligence and' the capacity
for learning by experience, and the
power and fixity of the instincts have
diminished; birds have kept instinct
as the mainstay of their behaviour,
and while they possess some intelli-
gence, it is used merely to polish up
the outfit of inherited: •instincts. The
front part of their brain, known to be
the seat of intelligence and learning,
remains relatively small, while other
parts, known to be the regulating ma-
chinery for more automatic and emo-
tional actions, are in birds relatively
larger than in four -footed creatures.
Perhaps the most obvious way in.
which birds differ from men in their
behaviour is that they can do all that
they have to do, including .some quite
complicated things, without ever be-
ing taught. Flying, for instance, with
all its complexity of balance and aero-
nautical adjustment, comes untaught.
Young birds very frequently make
their first flight when their parents
are out of sight. The stories of old
birds "teaching" their young to fly
seem all to be erroneous. ' Some kinds
of birds, once their young are full-
fledged, do try to lure them away from
the nest, but this is merely to encour-
age them to take the plunge. There
is no instruction by the old bird, and
no conscious imitation by the young.
Still more wonderful is it that a bird
should be able to build its nest un-
taught. Young birds, mating for the
first time, can make perfectly good fear; in song, the bird gives vent to a
nests, and nests of the usual type deep current of feeling; the emotions
found among their particular species. aroused during their courtship display
Some people suggest that the young often make them obliMous of danger;
birds may have gained the necessary
and they are as subject as men to the
knowledge from contemplating the emotions of jealousy — rival cocks
structure of the nest in which they sometimes fight to the death.
were brought up, but this theory is Bird mind has sufficient subtlety to
negatived by the facts. The young
brush -turkey of the Australian region
scrambles out of its tunnel immediate-
ly upon hatching, and does not bestow
so much as a look upon the mound of
rubbish and decaying leaves that
formed its nest, yet when the time for sense of humor although of a rather
mating comes, it will build mound low order. Two will combine to tease
just as its ancestors have done. More• a dog or a eat, one occuping its atten
over, young birds reared by hand in tion from the front, and the other
artificial nests will later build the pro- stealing behind to tweak its tail.
per kind of nest for their species. But being without the power of eon -
finch will have the .impulse to weave 'spinal thought, birds still differ in a
fundamental way from ourselves.
Their emotion is not linked up with
the future or with the past as in the
human mind. Their fear is just fear:
it is not the fear of death, nor can it
anticipate pain, nor become an ingredi-
ent of a lasting "complex." They can-
not worry or torment themselves. 'The
bird another is not concerned with the
fate of an individual offspring; and
when the young grow up and her inner
physiology changes, there is no intel•
tactual framework making a continu-
ing personal or individual interest pos-
sible. Our powers of thought and our
imagination bind up the present with
the future and the past: the bird's life
must be almost wholly a patchwork, a
series 'of self-sulliciug moments.
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Plant Life Is
Forever Thirsty
By Dr. D. T. MacDougal, in the
Scientific Monthly (August, 1931).
The fundamental thirst of living
matter, has laid the foundation of warn
between peoples, and bas been the
cause of racial ;migrations affecting
civilization in the profoundest manner.
The water problems of a city of over
a million people in one American state
have recently led to the expropriation
and assignment of the water on one of
the largest rivers, and a controversial
discussion by the people of seven
states occupying an area of half a mil-
lion square miles. .It is highly prob-
able that'•among the earliest agree-
ments between`family or tribal groups
were those as to the shared. use of
limited supplies of water. Plant life,
especially, is forever thirsty, and when
active, continually takes in and loses
water.
The growing substance in tender
root tips, in swelling buds, in the fra-
gile wood -forming combium layer of
tree trunks, and in enlarging fruits,
may have as much as a hundred or a
hundred and fifty parts of water to one
of solid matter, but, as the liquid is
being lost all the time, a continuous
new supply is necessary. We can prob-
ably understand this condition by fill-
ing a drinking glass loosely with ex-
celsior or wood -Elbe: packing, and then
pouring in water until it rises to the
brim. Water is similarly placed
among the ultimate strands or par-
ticles of protoplasm, which—unlike
the wood fibres—adhere by their poles
like fragments of magnetized iron.
These molecular clumps, or strands,
unlike the wood fibres, also bind the
water in much the same way as they
hold to each other, so that it does not
run out .freely: when the water is
forced out by pressure the fine mesh-
work or grouping of the molecules is
broken up and the protoplasm is in-
jured or destroye' If instead of pres-
sure the water should be slowly evap-
orated from the surface of the mass
of living matter, the fibers would be
brought closer together with an ac-
companying concentration of the sap
which slows down the activities which
constitute life. This is the universal
effect of thirst.
Crop plants and forest and fruit
trees obtain their water supply from
layers of soil of varying depths. The
roots of some species form great web-
bed sheets of wide extent just under-
neath the surface. Others send root-
lets deep into the substream. The first
habit is especially prevalent in places
where the rainfall is used as soon as
it soaks into the ground. Deeply pene-
trating roots take up large amounts of
water: a sunflower with a leaf spread
of about 11 square yards will evapor-
ate about 75 quarts of water from its
leaves during the course of develop-
ment; a corn plant takes up about 16
quarts of water during its lifetime; a
hemp plant twice as much. An acre
of cabbage plants needs over two mil-
lion quarts of water in a season. Two
hundred beech trees on an acre re-
quire nearly double this amount. One
of these trees loses about 80 quarts of
water as vapor daily from its lc; eves.
Irrigation practice must put enough
water into the soil to replace losses
from the leaves and losses from the
surface of the soil as well as the
amount actually used or bound in the
tissues. The farmer knows that over
600 pounds of water must be put into
the soil to provide one pound of dry
alfalfa, while the forester estimates
that halt a ton is necessary to make
a pound of wood.
The plant is a complicated living
mechanism that converts the energy
cruelty nor malice aforethought, it Is
merely instinct. .
When the foster -mother comes home,
sheds not distressed in the least, but
sets about at once feeding the change-
ling, and paying no attention to her
own offspring, even though some of
them may be dangling just outside the
nest. Even when the young cuckoo
grows into a creature entirely different
from its foster -parents, and so bulky
that they have to perch on its head to
feed it, the older birds do not seem
disconcerted as human beings cer-
tainly would.
The well-known "broken -wing" trick
is usually set down as a remarkable
example of intelligence, but all the
evidence points to this, too, as being,
merely instinctive—a trick not invent-
ed by the individual bird but patented
by the species. It is, in fact, on a par
with the purely automatic "shamming
dead" which many insects practice,
and is the inevitable outcome of the
animal's nervous machinery when it
is stimulated in a particular way.
Besides instinctive actions, we could
multiply instances of unintelligent be-
haviour among birds. If a strange egg
is put among a bird's own eggs, the
mother may either accept it or intelli-
gently turn it out of the nest and con-
tinue to sit. But a ,quite common re-
action is for it to turn the strange egg
but and then desert the nest.
But because birds are mainly -in-
stinctive and not intelligent in their
actions, it does not follow that their
minds are lacking in intensity or
variety: in fact, they experience a
wide range of powerful emotions.
There is an intense satisfaction in
brooding and feeding its young; where
there is danger, birds suffer very real
indulge in play: birds have been seen
dropping small objects in midair, and
swoop down to catch them before they
reach the ground, with the greatest
evidence of enjoyment. Some birds,
for example, the ravens, have a real
coarse material into a rough cup, and
then to line this with a finer material;
the tailorbird takes leaves and sews
them together; and the house -martin
collects mud or clay and constructs a
cup against the side of a cliff or a
house.
Birds in a state of broodiness will
have the impulse to sit on eggs, but
if eggs are not available, then on some-
thing else. Crows have brooded on
golf -balls, gulls on brilliantine tins,
and penguins on lumps of ice.
Contrary to general opinion, birds
have no real affection for their young.
They have a strong, . emotional, irra-
tional concern, not entwined with rea-
son, memory, personal affection, and
foresight. When a nestling dies there
is no sign of sorrow, although there
may be some agitation if a whole
brood is stolen. When a chick be-
comes ill, it is definitely neglected. It
would seem that the bird is only im-
pelled to parental action when there
1s some activity, like gaping or
squawking, on the part of the children.
Perhaps the familiar cuckoo pro-
vides us with the compietest proof of
the dissimilarity of birds' minds with
our own. A young cuckoo, having been
deposited as an egg in the nest of
some other quite different species of
bird, and having hatched out in double-
quick time, proceeds to evict 411 the
rest of the contents of the nest, wheth-
er these be eggs. or young birds. It
has a slightly hollow, hypersensitive
aback, and the touch of any object
there drives him frantic, so that, no
CASTORmatter what it is—eggs, Young birds,
IAnuts or marbles ---he wants backward
CIII t b R E N COY' Vb iC IT
and upward to the edge of the nest
and tilts it overboard, it is neither
Owl Laffs
Man is a rather peculiar creature.
He shoots the birds and then turns
around and spends millions of dollars
to fight insects. Maybe some head-
aches are proof of brain, as scientists
now inform us, but not the kind you
have next morning. For years things
have been getting better and better for
the children, but often worse for the
parents.
Clarke—"So Ethel returned your en-
gagement ring?"
Harold—"Yes, she mailed it to me
and had the nerve to paste the label
on the outside of the package: "Glass,
handle with care'."
Not Much To Be Thankful For
You think you've little to be thank-
ful for, do you?
You're able to read this, aren't you?"
Well, that's a lot to be thankful for.
We've just been to a place where
there are some blind men—they'll
never see the beauty of God's world
again in all their lives. They were
soldiers, too—gave their eyes for their
country.
If they could have their sight re-
stored to the
they would get down
on their. knees and praise God!
You would, too, if you were blind
and had sight restored.
But you have your eyesight, so
there's that at least to be thankful for.
Some of those boys are crippled,
armless, legless, hopeless invalids for
life—because they served their coun-
try. They haven't much to be thank-
ful for, have they?
Yet most of them are so
little favors done them,
would ache to see it.
Nothing to be thankful for?
Look around a bit and you'll prob-
ably find you are mistaken and that
you have a lot to be thankful for.
Wile—"John, the bill collector's at
the door."
Hubby—"Tell him to take that pile
on the desk."
grateful for
your heart
Kathleen—"Clarice always leaves a
good impression on the boys."
Ellen—"Yes, the kind of lipstick she
uses comes off very easily."
Nurse—"Bobby! What would your
father say if he saw you'd broken that
branch off?"
Bobby—"FIe'd say trees are not so
well made as they were before the
war."
Give a man enough rope and he will
start manufacturing five -cent cigars.
The less a man knows the tighter he
clings ` to the things he think' he
knows. Don't take your undertaker
too seriously when he asks you to drop
over some time.
To Begin With
Owing to the absence through 111-
ness of the qoman who taught the
senior girls' Bible Class, the young
of sunlight into power. Some of the assistant minister was asked to under -
energy is used in making compounds; take the duties for the day. He con -
but 98 per cent of the energy absorbed sented, but before beginning he said,
by leaves and other green expanses of
the plant is used in evaporating water
from the surfaces of the cells. The
work of lifting water from the rootlets
in the soil to the crown of tall trees,
to heights as great as 400 feet, is done
by power generated in this manner.
This movement of liquid in the ascent
of sap is as important as the circula-
tion of our blood, although the move-
ment is not a circulation. Watery solu-
tions rise from the roots to the leaves
where' Most of the liquid goes into the
air as water vapor.. Only a small frac-
tion of the water which moves rapidly
upward in the Woody conduits of
stems is bound or held in chemical.
combinations in the cells.
The green surfaces are held toward
the sunlight partly by stiff, rigid
steins, and partly by the force of
water through the tiny cells. Some-
times the water IS forced through the
elastic•` cell walls at a pressure of a
ton to a square inch. A stem, leaf, or
flower, the cells of which are distend-
ed .by such pressure,' will have great
rigidity and firmness.
The production of sugars and other
organic substances in green leaves de-
pends directly on the extent of green
Surfaces exposed to light. Overex-
tension of the surfaces will be follow-
ed by undue loss of water and a conse-
quent wilting. Certain plants, such as
cacti, are able to store water for -years.
Pain
It a man, by causing pale to others,
wish esto obtain pleasure for himself,
he, entangled in the bonds of Bolflsh-
ness, will never be ,free front hatred.
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Pocket guns about the size of
fountain pens, which carry cartridges
filled with tear -gas, are on sale on
the 'Continent. They are intended for
private use against bandits.
smilingly: "Now, girls, I want to con-
duct your class just as your teacher
does, so you might tell me what she
does first."
A short pause, then the answer from
a pert miss of sixteen: "Well, she al-
ways kisses us all round!"
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