Show x x x x X X X X X X x x x x x x x x x x x x x x De Desert ert Animals Anima s That Scorpions ons Cant Can't Harm One One- of ot the most must fascinating chap teis tel's In In animal poisons Is the subject of or natural ural Immunity the foci fact that some animals nr are immune to the pol pot so-ns so sons of ot others other and remain unhurt If stun stung or r bitten by liS the poisonous ani animal mal whereas all other sorts of beasts II succumb A i case In 1 point i Is II that thu t I of desert animals which are unharmed by a 8 sting The desert fox fux the kangaroo rut rat and und other Inhabitants inhabitants' of deserts where scorpions abound are in inthIs inthis this happy position Their cousins living far away from the desert would at once he Injured hy by n a scorpions scorpion's sling sting whereas the rt desert sert breeds ds remain unhurt It Is to h lie hl sup SUI UI J posed that In tcP tre far distant past before the desert animals had bad this complete Immunity to scorpion venom I those which were stung and could not resist died leaving no offspring Their luckier brothers who happened to I e have a hardier constitution survived and left behind them a n resistant race of descendants descendants Irot Prof H. H I. I Munro Fox I I In the Forum I |