NOTHING NEW.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19809, 28 November 1919, Page 6

NOTHING NEW.

In spite of iiian's attempts to outdo Mature, In,, generally finds that the mothor ul tho earth has toreslallcd liim I 1 or instnnco, in tho mailer of petty armaments, of a ]xtsoiuil nature. iho rhinoceros was armour-plated millions <>l years ago. and iho porcupine and hedgehog provided with barbed-wire do-fein-es, not to mention tho tough hide of the elephant, the. shell of tho turtle and snail, and the impenetrable Imsk of the armadillo. In fact, there is hardly a modern weapon which the hip; game hunter cannot, show samples of, taken Irom Nature’s annotirv. I’urihor. poison tins has its prototype in Nature. The skunk can keep off most ol its enemies by tho terrible effluvia it can create at will, whilst, the poison tangs ol many serpents come under a similar category. There are also methods of Irightfulness in which many insects hike an actin' part, liven the device of sending up a smokescreen is as old as the- hills, for more than one fish docs a. very similar thing in order to escape from swifter enemies of the deep.