BIOLOGY IN CAGES
At the Zoo. By Julian Huxley. Allen and tJnwin. 80 pp. (3/6 net.) In this little book Mr Julian Huxley, as secretary to the Zoological Society of London, undertakes the task of making a visit to the Zoo more profitable by explaining, biologically, facts that the observer may see for himself but will hardly, without instruction, understand. For -instance, the shape and construction of the beaks of birds: these illustrate adaptation to the kind of food they eat. "The large beaks of toucans and hornbills are adaptations for picking and holding large fruits. . . . The white pelican has a fishscoop for the lower half of its bill, the heron has its beak turned into a fish-spear, the woodpecker's is a hammer and chisel." He explains why, at the Zoo, they "always put on the label of an animal not only its name but where it comes from." The last chapter is a lucid little essav on studying evolution at the Zoo. ' ' ' ~
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22081, 1 May 1937, Page 17
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