ANIMALS TEACH US.
Many of our human devices are not I original with us: The woodpecker has a powerful little grip hammer. The jaws of the tortoise and turtle are natural scissors. The framework of a ship resembles the skeleton of a herring. The squirrel carries a chisel in his mouth, and the bee the carpenter's plane. The gnat fashions its eggs in the shape of a lifeboat. You cannot sink gnats without tearing them to pieces. A porcupine's; J>i 11 is strengthened by ribs 111 the same way that iron masts of modern shipare" strengthened. The diving bell imitates the watei spider. It constructs a small cell under the water, clasps a bubble of air between its legs, dives into its submarine chamber with the j bubble, displacing the water gradually, until its abode contains a large, airy room surrounded by water.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 21
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143ANIMALS TEACH US. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 21
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