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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

APRIL

1935.

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OLDEST EGG IN THE WORLD

LAID BY REPTILE IN DAYS OF ANTIQUITY

(BY E. G. BOULENGER.)

Interest has been aroused by the lays its own ogzs side by side with rocent discovery of what is pro- the birds, and the heat, no care- bably the oldest fossil egg known fully attended to and regulated by to date. The specimen in ques-the parent bird, hatches out the tion has been unearthed in Central deadliest enamlós of its own off- Техад

and is belloved to have spring. The lizard's eggs hatch emanated from an extinct roptilo ing first, there issues forth, not a -the Opbincadon, whose romains covey of chicks, but a swarm of were found nearby.

reptiles that make their first meni The egg, which is now under-off infant brush, turkeys. The going examination by experts, is brush turkey is of biological in- assumed to be over 100,000,000 terest, since. Its Incubatory years old, and therefore of oven methods exhibin remarkable greater antiquity than the dino parallel to those of certain Baurs emanated from oggs or were reptiles from which the feathered born alive. The latter assumption raco is belloved to have evolved, was not ungrounded, since the giraffe-necked sea lizards known

as Plesiosaurs have long been established as viviparous, com- ploto skeletons having been found with foctal skeletons in situ.

That the Gobi Desert eggs, which in size and shape resemble large potatoes, were actually those of the dinosaur was proved con clusively when the outer crust of Ono WOR accidentally chipped away, revealing. the curled-up form of an embryo dinosaur with- in. This immediately justified the assumption that the eggs were laid by the roptiles, whose re- mains abounded in the vicinity. THE DINOSAUR

Dinosaurs, like the parent of the lately discovered erg from Texas, were shortlived; large- hoaded creatures some six feet in length and mere miniatures when compared with some of the rep tles which later dominated earth and water.

Despite this discovery in the Gobi Desert, it would perhaps, be rash to assume that all dinosaurs were similarly produced. A con- siderable number of living rep tiles still remain unknown in the egg state, and of the many farms with which we are familiar there is much divergence of behaviour, many laying eggs, a few hatching from ava within the body, whilst others bring forth their young alivo.

Ao regards living reptiles, all turtles, tortoises, and crocodiles, ao far as in at present known, pro- duce their young from eggs, which are either laid in sand and hatched by the beat of the sun, or de posited in rotting vegetation and incubated partly by the sun's rays and partly by fermentation. Al though since the introduction of the sunray lamp an increasing number of different reptiles can now be kept for long periods in captivity, few make good parents in confinement, hence the many. gapa in our knowledge of their embryology.

PYTHON'S MOTHER LOVE It has been ascertained al ̄thej Zoo, however, that the python,, largest of the world's snakes, displays a very real anxiety for its og In this glant reptile the egge, up to 100 in number, arej protected by the mother, who coila! herself round them and subjects the eva to a form of incubation. During this nursing period, which sometimes extends to over montas, The imperature of the female riscs soveral degrees above the normal, an increase of heat which is of the same nature na that of an incubating bird.

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It is impossible to say whether; the majority of snakes lay eggs or produce their young alive, for. occasionally both methods of re- production are to be observed in the same specios. As an example, one may quote the case of sen ser- pents, highly poisonous snakes which abound in most tropic waters. This group of reptiles, which includes some fifty spscles, has until quite recently been pro-

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This big tri-motor plane is one of those used by German spartsmen to reach the winter sports grounds in the Bayarlan Alpa,

These little Chinese ladies are prepared for a ceremonial

occasion.

And below, Admiral Takahashi, new Commander-in Chief of

the Japanese Navy comes aboard his flagship.

"A GREAT NEW POET"

claimed as universally viviparous. MR-ALFRED-NOYES

Captive specimens in the Zoo Aquarium, however, discounten- anced authority by insisting upon laying eggs, and although the ova did not actually hatch, their mere appearance was a sufficient warn- ing as to the wisdom of the old proverb-featina lento.

NO ANXIETY

To the writer's knowledge, none

PROPHECY

publishers, he continued, to impose onsense on the public, and the

public were "fed up" with it. The only, chance for young men now was the crude one of self-advertise-

mont, and the men with the older reputations were prptesting. that the junk must be cleared out to let the young men express themselves in their own way. What were you to do with situation in which people with degenerate heads came to him and showed him stuff they Members of the Poetry Society called poetry, of which he could

YOUNG MAN AS YET UNKNOWN

of the many lizards which lay listened recently to Mr. Alfred not understand three consecutive

oggs appear to have any anxiety Noyes reading two poems by an words.

for their welfare once they are unknown young man who, he pro- Inid, though in some cases thorophesied, will in twenty years from

is a certain amount of cunning

TO WAIT 20 YEARS,

"They tell me," said Mr. Noyes,

exhibited as to the choice of a post now, "be recognised as one of the "that we are not interested in the in preference to a mere dumping great poets of the English tongue."new poetry, I know one new poet ground. It is, for example, possible that Whipsnade Park's The occasion was the Society's and I tell you I am quite certain phenomenal success In

Silver Jubilee dinner bold at the he is a great new port. He uses rearing brush turkeys is largely due to the Connaught Rooms, at which Mr. metres that have never been used birds being spared the attentions Noyes presided. In his speech pro- before; he follows the great tradi-. of a lizard which, in the wild, posing the toast of "Poetry and the tion in that he develops it in a frequently invades the bird's home Poetry Society," Mr. Noyes. said: significant way: he doesn't write for Its own nesting purposes.

bad grammar and try to make out

The cock brush turkey raises a "At the present moment the that he does it on purpose. In mound of debris somo forty-eight chances of an absolutely new poet twenty years from now he will be feet round by six feet high, with being appreciated are very small. recognised as one of the great poets an average weight of five tons. For this there are definite reasons of the English 'tongue." Doop within this structure tho hen bird places the eggs, which Twenty-five years ago there was a

ara hatched by formantation. In very grent opportunity given to

Mr. Noyes then read two pohms from a volume of poetry called

the Australian bush, however, the poets, which was seized by a num The Black Panther," by John Hall labour of the parent bird is fre-ber of writers, They brought wheelock. The first stanza of one quently frustrated by a large pootry into favour with a large of them, "The Fish Hawk," was as monitor lizard, which annexes the part of the reading, public. Sinco follows: mound for its own purposes. then many things have happened."

This manoeuvre spells disaster to

the turkey's brood, for the reptile There was an attempt by somo

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