ANIMALS THAT NEVER DRINK.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13592, 6 October 1914, Page 2

ANIMALS THAT NEVER DRINK.

It would seem that water is so indispensable to life that no animals could e:;iat without drinking. Nevertheless, Dr. Blanford asserts that the antelopes which live in the sand desert between the salt lake Chilka and the sea never drink. This has been doubted by physiologists, who deny that existence is possible in such conditions, but confirmatory evidence is now adduced by Da*. Drake-Brockman. It appears that since 1910 a troupe of gazelles have lived in the small island Saad-ud-Din on the side of Spmaliland, where there is no source of water and where the annual rainfall is less than three inches, so thatT these gazelles cannot .obtain water except after very rare showers. The vegetation is very poor and they cannot supplement the lack of water during the dry season by consuming roots 'and bulbous plants rich in liquid.