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SAVAGE SURVIVALS 



spring hunger for the Pole, but they did not have 

 the traveling facilities to enable them to carry out 

 their desires. 



Tame ducks that live without access to a body 

 of water will often go thru the motion of dip- 

 ping and diving and splashing the water with their 



DUCKS "BATHING" IN A DRY LOT 



wings in a dry lot. The machinery of their nature 

 was set up in surroundings where there was al- 

 ways water, and they continue to act as water- 

 birds even in the absence of water. 



The donkey and the camel, both originally desert 

 animals, have an unusual aversion for getting wet ; 

 horses stampede (**run away'') when frightened; 

 bees tend to fly away and find some natural habi- 

 tation when they swarm ; park quails scratch the 

 floor of their cage when feeding, as they were ac- 

 customed to scratch for food among the thickets 

 and grasses ; and tame turtles will drop into the 



