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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19905, 27 September 1926, Page 6

Nature presents many puzzles, and while one often reads about tho curiosities of many of the larger animals, he is not so familiar with some of the leaser known “freaks." The great increase in weight of animals such os the elephant and hippopotamus is often iccorded, Imt the privet-hawk moth increases Its weight U.OOO times in its 32 days of fesm, ing. Even this record is beaten by the performance of the goat moth, which increases its original weigh! 74,000 times, although it takes three years to do so. Some butterflies have no mouths and take no food whatever during their brief lives.