Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1926, Page 13

) SCIENCE EXPLAINS GIRAFFE'S NECK Animal Coming to Zoo Got Length to Enable Him to Reach Food. Well, children, before you begin thinking very seriously of a sultable name for our giraffe, you certainly will have to know something about his fam tree. But, according to the very best information we can find, it ©ould be a lot better, as soclety looks nily trees now S, 3 of ‘all, the scienti it griraffes belong to the of creatures as goats, oxen, sheep, an- and deer. They say most unily must have its ‘“black sheep,” but it would be much nicer if we could put our giraffe in a separate family with such lovely antelope and deer, wouldn't it? tell us ume group How- it of the rmily was seratie, anyhow. Ancestors of Cow Family. science just ‘group of ani- . The word ived from the Latin which means cattle. That, of course, Is going too far. The sclentists mean to indicate, however, th - “ruminating ani- 2 an animal that its cud, like a cow. Hence the catlon with cattle. Of course, you are wondering by this time how in the world any sane person could think of saving a long- legged, necked giraffe could pos- y v stubby runt of Just the same, they are, and »ve his statement. tionship began so long ago, however, that you needn't worry— even the giraffes have happily for- gotten that part of their family tree. These th are all evidences of avolution-—or the process of develop- ment that everything living must go through and ages Ago—t00 many years for either you or I to think about—we are told that giraffes, goats, deer and some other animals were all one and the same animal. TI 1l originated from the ame group. Then, p ndered into different kinds of cli- s where the vegetation, which :, was different, they changed. t Tho L e Mothe she will inst branch of th 0w bec animals as THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ActrcssT Refusal to Use 4-Letter Word Meaning Very Hot Place Fills Theater By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, August 31.—The use of a word of four letters, meaning an extremely hot place described in the Bible, is considered indelicate by May Mooré Duprez, actress. She declined to utter it at the opening of a new revue last night. ‘When the time came for her to say vigorously, “You go to X she merely uttered in a weak voice, “You may go wherever you like.' The press agents had worked the —_—ee a climate where it had to reach high for the kind of food it most liked, and possibly the vegetation on the ground made walking uncomfortable. Little by little Mother Nature made their necks and legs longer, so that they would be raised up to the food they most desired. Giraffes like to eat from tall trees, especially the mimosa tree, a specle that is quite abundant in Africa, where they all live now, except, of course, those in the zoos. When they do gra: they have to spread their feet very wide apart in order to reach the ground, and even wider when they reach down into a pool to take a drink of water. Seeing that the giraffe likes to browse among the mimosa trees, Mother Nature gave him a coat to sult the trees, so that he might hide more easily from his enemies. Hunt- ers declare that it is very difficult to” distinguish a herd of giraffe, with their mottled coats, which the ancient Romans thought looked like leopard's spots, from the vegetation of the mimosa tree. That is what we called “camouflage,” or deception, during the war. So you see now why giraffes have long legs and long necks and why they have such pretty dotted coats of fur. R WILL REORGANIZE POLICE Berkeley, Calif., Chief Gets Ap- proval to Aid Detroit Department. BERKELEY, Calif., August 31 (®). —City Manager John N. Edy vester- day sent a message to Chief of Police August A. 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