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Show l ,9k mgm&f?' 0 Thosplifes may mean the end of giraffes The death of Victor, the giraffe who fell spread-eagle- d at a British zoo recently and couldn't regain his feet, dramatized a weakness of the world's tallest animal. When an giraffe slips, it's a long way down and an even longer way 18-fo- ot back up. Victor weighed a ton, and in the five days before he succumbed everything from airbags to a specially built hoist was tried to get him standing again. The zoo's owner, John Knowles, told reporters that if the efforts had succeeded, Victor would have been "the first giraffe as far as I know to have done the splits and Lived." Normally when a giraffe lies down it must go through a laborious pro- cess of tucking its hind legs under its body, then folding those long front legs. Some have been observed to sleep standing up, possibly to avoid all that bother. These ungainly-appearin- g giants have intrigued onlookers since ancient Egyptians put them on display in zoos. In 46 B.C. Julius Caesar brought one to Rome. Because it was drive blood eight as big as a camel and was "To to the feet up head," he spotted like a leopard, the adds, "the heart is exceppoet Horace deduced that and it was a hybrid of the two. tionally large and the blood twice or three From that bit of unnat- pressure is times that of man ural history came the probably the highest in species' modern scientific any animal." name, Giraffa camelop-ardaliBiologists once wonderActually, a giraffe's physiology is almost ed how a giraffe avoided a as strange as Roman the- fatal hemorrhage when it lowered its neck to drink ories. water. Bristol Foster has stu"To withstand the surge died herds of giraffes in of blood to and from the Kenya at length. In a brain as its neck sweeps recent issue of National up and down," Dr. Foster Geographic, Dr. Foster says, "the giraffe has dedescribed how evolution veloped control valves in "has modified the gir- the jugular veins and a special network of blood affe's anatomy to allow vessels in its head." Like others who have this stretched-versio- n studied giraffes, he was mammal to function." A giraffe's elongated impressed by their grace neck has only seven ver- and gentleness. A giraffe's tebrae the same as slow, stately stride is deman's. But in the giraffe, ceptive; those long legs carry it over the ground at each one is eight inches speeds up to 35 miles as long. To compensate for hour, faster than most all the dead air space in animals can run. that long throat, the ani- large But its legs are also the mal has oversize lungs. giraffe's weakness. It can"Without this extra not reach a water hole capacity," Dr. without spraddling its Foster explains, "a gir- front legs wide apart. In affe would breathe the this awkward position, a same used air over and giraffe can be killed by a over." stalking lion. thick-muscle- ni sra on d, i CLJUl s. CONVENIENT TEMPORARY OFFICES AT 685 SOUTH MAIN MEMBER F.D.I.C. National Geographic Campbell SPLAYED LEGS at a salt lick make the world's tallest creature vulnerable to attack. A second giraffe keeps its head up as though to watch for any lions prowling nearby. The one room DINING ROOM FURNITURE schoolhouse quickly becoming history The dismissal bell is for those one-roo- m schoolhouses that once dotted the American land- scape. At the end of World War II, the nation had more than 85,000. Today per- haps only 1,000 of the simple wooden buildings survive, the National Geo- graphic Society reports, Surrounded by nostal- school-t- o gia, one-roohouses call to mind care- free barefoot tentative first flirtations, and an occasional day of hooky spent at the ol' swimmin' hole. Presiding over all this was a stern but lovable schoolmarm who patiently drilled d 3 home the Rs. "These kids today don't know what they're miss- in'," say oldtimers who the passing of the m days,--shyffro- time-honore- little red structures. "They don't know how lucky they are," counter those impressed by the facilities available in mo- rural schools. A case can be made for both views, but there's no disputing the fact that at the turn of the century the typical little red school- it was more often left a lot to be white desired.. Poorly lighted, the classrooms reeked of ker- floors, osene, chalk dust, perspiration, damp wood, and chlorine Dieacn. u won auuui gallon of bleach each day to sanitize the nearby privy. The children who tended the board and log cabin schools of colonial times had it even rougher, The buildings were primi- tive and small, roughly 18 by 20 feet. 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