CHAPTER VI 



MINOTAURUS TYPHGEUS : FURTHER 

 OBSERVATIONS 



THE bamboo tripod, so alien in its ar- 

 rangement to the Minotaur's habits, 

 might well have been the cause, in part, of 

 the father's premature decease. In the glass 

 tube, only one cylindrical cake alone was pre- 

 pared. Evidently this was not enough. 

 Two at least are needed to maintain the 

 species in the actual state; more would be 

 needed, as many as possible, for increased 

 prosperity. But in my apparatus there is 

 no room, unless the food-cylinders are super- 

 imposed and piled in columns, a mistake 

 which the mother would never commit. 



Superimposed stories would afterwards 

 make the emergence of the offspring diffi- 

 cult. In their eagerness to reach the light, 

 the oldest, grown sufficiently mature and oc- 

 cupying the foot of the column, would topple 

 over and lacerate the late arrivals, who are 

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