FISH FLIRT AND CLIMB TREES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 133, 8 June 1925, Page 3

FISH FLIRT AND CLIMB TREES.

MONKEYS BRUSH TEETII.

Fish that flirt and climb trees monkeys that brush their teeth after every meal, and birds that sleep upside l down am a few of the animals described' by Carveth Wells, K.K.C.S., explorer, in a lecture in Xew York hist month, reciting his six years of advent tire in the jungles ~f the .Malay peninsula. The tree-climbing fish cumes out of the water to play on tbe beach. "When yon tickle its tummy it swells up with ;\ir and bounces about for sheer happiness,'' said Wells. Another finny freak is the flirting fish, the only swimming animal known to have a genuine wink. This coquettish creature is known as the Periopthalinus Scbb.serii. which is Creek fur "eve winker."' Wells (old of a live Teddy bear. lo inches high and looking when full grown precisely like the toy. Even' smaller is the vest-pocket deer. I which measures seven inches from hoof ! to horn. I There is a lizard that flips off its tail !at will. There is a plant su sensitive that it flattens itself against the ground when one stamps near it. yet so strung that it resists the fiercest (vphoons. There is the liyiiciiie mm.key. so careful of bis health that after ovcry menl and before going to bed at night Ibe repairs to the nearest stream ami brushes bis teetii with tbe aid of tlie lirst linger of bis right band. There is tin- bird which sleeps upside down. -I!,it then." Wells concluded, "everyIbimr i- i.p-i'l" d,.wn in .be Malay I jungle-."