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Show Walking Toothpick Ball Is Really an Ant-Eater NEW YORK. You meet such Interesting In-teresting animals . . . There's a walking ball of toothpicks tooth-picks that eats ants, a kangaroo that plays Tarzan, the cuscus, bandicoot, band-icoot, "flying mice," and the bashful bash-ful crocodile. For good measure there are green ants and a tree that stings you. There's the obliging carpet snake that can help in good housekeeping, house-keeping, the nasty death adder, and nastier taipan or big boss of nasty snakes. You can rub elbows with this frightful menagerie on the Cape York peninsula of northeast Australia. Aus-tralia. Better yet, you can inspect them (nicely dead and harmless) at the American museum of natural nat-ural history. Scores of these old fellows were just brought back by the 1948 Arch-bold Arch-bold Cape York expedition. Cape York is a 100,000 square mile area full of strange plants and animals, and up to now it hasn't been explored ex-plored much by scientists. The walking ball of toothpicks is the spiny anteater, a distant cousin cou-sin of the duck-billed platypus. This anteater is a survivor of a kind of mammal that maybe was common 60 to 70 million years ago. |
