Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1927, Page 14

UEER SPECIMENS " RECEVED AT 200 [Toads and Salamanders Not on Exhibit for Lack of Room. ! Four specimens of the most malevo- flent appearing creatures in the United 'States were received this week at the iNational Zool These are the g 8 ow Mexico Deserts. atest bluffers in the same time jthey ar any fehild cs fthem by S over its belly remain for hour [tate of complete hypnotic t will become a immediately 5 @nert, motionless and apparently dead The bodies covered with sharp pines and encircled with a ringe, giving them the appearance of Qiving, crawling cactus plants. Be- hind the eves are two sharp horns, mearly a half-inch long. When en fraged or frightened the animal ca =hogt ms of blood out of tormentors. So frightful arance that it is left strictly Is Not Very Strong. Actually, however, it can he BImost with impunity. The spines awouldn't pierce the skin and it would lbe extremely difiicult for the toad to jget into a position where it coul mse its horns. It has very little 1 strength and acts purely by inst the case of the blood [purting from the eyes excessive fear eems to act automaticaily to open a Eam of some kind. During the past few years, ac ng to Zoo officials, these batrachians ve become popular as household ets, solely because of their frightful jeppearance. They never b jnd friendly like ordinary toads. They o, however, learn to know those who ffeed them regularly. The great draw back is that they seldom live over [Winter. If they do, they almost in- levitably die in the Spring. This diffi- culty, it is believed by the use of artific When the toad goes to mlways burrows out a hollow in the and in which to repose. The strength of this instinct, acco! William M. Mann, director ‘was illustrated to him yea he collecting horned poological specimens. It practice to gather living specimens, put them in bottles, the bottoms of were covered with sand, and puffs of chloroform rwhich, then send a fe The Curtain Drops! ;| ous medie its | indled | v | for a minute or so. v | dried up there would be extremely lit- s | horned toads wer | One of the THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. AUGUST 7, [HOLY IRISH MOUNTAIN s s i 22 IS VISITED BY 100,000 i ges since 1113 | hed in a | mountain during a thunderstorm. | | | Multitude Within Few Days Makes' PLAN SMOKERS’ ACADEMY. ! Pilgrimage to Place Where | Writers and Critics Propose Organ- St. Patrick Struggled. ization of Philosophers. PAR August 6 (#).—The Acad- my of okers may a4 ated Press. AGHAGOWER. Mayo, Ireland. Au-|along ¥ gust 6.—More than 100,000 pilgvims | plan of Chavles Clerc, |have made the tortuous climb to|out. Clere says the summit of the Holy Mountain, | ers would of ne agh Patrick, during the past few |of philosophers. Rene Doumic, writer, | to visit the spot where St {and himself 2 member of the French wditionally wrestled 40 days | Academy, indor the pr 1 on s with Satan before driving | the ground that it would It in kes out of Ireland better cigars included Iris | membe from all over the world and from all | Letters, heliey alks of life to whom the spot, 2510 | “stimulate above sea level, is a hallowed | smoking | By the Assoc eritic, works | ! £ smok- | demy and nigh all the s The pilerims ademy of new group would | artistic side of | | Has Just Arrived at tae Zoo. | into the bottle | as the crea tures felt the of death ¢ | creeping over them they would start to work form half the sand with the aside die pushing bed and | finished. i Another ir {at the Zoo th | five sal ting reptile received is the European r. the subject of numer- legends. 1t was sup. posed to live in flame, and acquired the reputation of being | caped out of the fires sth. 1t was feared as a « resentative of the devil r ew creatures heat. They might be tch burning too close the heat tended to dry up However, the medieval magician_actually had scen them go into the flames, remain apparently un- | seathed for a time, and then disappear | completely, leaving no trace Also he had seen them wandering about recently burned-over woods. He put the two together and constructed | his legends. | Habits of Salan | In the body of the lis a very high percentage of water, | is | much than in most reptiles, can s | killed by to them if the b der. mander there ater to hold the body together unct But once it was For all practical purpose; ture would have compl N red. The same thing would happen with a frog. The salamander, zoologically, is practically a frog with |2 tail. The fire salamander seems to have for charred wood in moist with fantastical vellow as an appearance which that of an emmisary | tle left v suggest from the undes Both the r received gifts by the park and are not on public ex- | hibition due to lack of space in the lion house, which also serves as a rep- tile house, to show them under proper onditions. Reptil e the most f behind. | Put into a fire this water might serve | | | quent gifts to the Zoo, and, due to the | rien legendry ociated with them, | would make one of the best exhibits | if room could be found for them. 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