ANIMALS TEACH US
Many of our human devices are not 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 carpen--ter’s plane. The gnat fashions its eggs in the hape of a lifeboat. You cannot sink gnats without tearing them to pieces. A porcupine’s bill is strengthened by ribs in the same way that iron masts of modern ships are strengthened. The diving bell imitates the water spider. It constructs a small cell under the water, clasps a bubble of air between its legs, dives into its submarine chamber with the bubble, displacing the water gradually until its abode contains a large, airy ! room surrounded by water.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 55, 7 March 1939, Page 2
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