HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1957-09-26, Page 7About Elephants
In one way, elephants are like
people; Some are smarter than.
others. There are those ele-
phants who, when the monsoons
have caused a logjam in the
rivers, can sopt the key log and
without advice from the mahout
— pull it free.
Despite this display of tech-
nical prowess, the elephant's in-
telligence has been overrated
(most cocker spaniels are at
least as smart). They have a
fairly good memory, but experts
say that if elephants 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 plot,! 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 if exposed
to cold weather for any length
a1f 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
cooked it tastes Iike pasteboard
and clings to the teeth Eke soft
glue. Though those culinary dis-
tinctions attract the natives who
will swarm over a carcass look-
ing for a choice cut, Westerners
ire apt to find the meat no
delicacy.
Elephants don't live to be 150
or 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
slwimming, 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
ifltattling last week and this
taeant bad business for the
avellous and increasingly dar-
lg dingo. Squads of workmen
were pressing ahead with the
ob of stringing a fence, 3,500
iles long and 5 feet high, to
*eep the dingo back from the
glich, remote grazing land of
alortheast Australia. It will en-
close an area larger than Texas
end 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
tap to $10 on his head. Each year
tome 2 million sheep and count -
lass 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; -
sandstornis cover them up and
large bush animals, the ebul-
lient kangaroo and wombat
among them, trample them
clown.
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 war, 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. Some 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
them with distemper and 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.
ungs Of Doom
From time immemorial man
has used wood for one purpose
or another, including crime.
Apart from numberless examples
of wooden weapons there have
been dumrny revolvers made of
wood and in one case, a con-
vict had wooden keys made to
fit several of the doors in his
prison.
Wood can, easily be Identified
by experts, who will name the
parent tree, its type, and where
it is grown. Wood is a medium
which retains the characteris-
tic marks of tools which have
been used on it.
A classic case ofidentification
of woodled to the conviction of
Bruno Hauptmann for kidnap-
ping the Lindbergh baby. A
ladder found at the scene of
the crime was handed to an ex-
pert. It proved to be home-made
from wood which had been
planed before delivery.
The expert looked for a mill
which had a planing machine
with eight blades. There were 1,-
598• mills from New York to
Alabama and only twenty-five
used an eight -blade planer. Two
of these were eliminated as they
did not handle one -by -four
stock. Samples from each of the
remaining twenty-three firms
were obtained — and one had
revolution marks of exactly the -
same spacing as on the ladder.
This it was easy to trace the
ladder to Hauptmann, who was
found guilty and executed.
PITCH TO ME, BABE * C. J. Zone is dwarfed by his own crew.
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Zone built because "it seemed like something that couldn't
be done." It's capable of throwing the boll 300 yards, Zone
Ways. Sounds more like an outfielder.
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