Show I 1 P ab W inglis jwj LAKE BAIKAL A BIG PUZZLE varied and nd peculiar animal life found in body of water in n central asia the riddle of lake baikal in central asia la Is similar to that of lake Iranga tanganyika nyika in central africa in both cases a large body of fresh water remote from the ocean contains or apparently marine both lakes again contain a very large number of bacca not found elsewhere lake I 1 oke baikal contains numerous salmon salman and souls eeals as aa well as three species of herring it also contains a few of apparently marine forms one of the most moat remarkable features of the lake perhaps to la that although it la is frozen over for about five months in the year the animal life to la extremely abundant and varied this may be partly accounted for perhaps by the existence of hot springs one of the latest attempts to answer the riddle of lake la is that of the russian investigator M berg of the thirty three specks of nan fish found in the lake he finai that fourteen are peculiar to it while nineteen have a wide distribution in siberia and europe many of these peculiar pecks clos are without v near ro rotations lations anywhere of the 80 90 per cent are peculiar it if berr berg does doeg not the facts demand tho the hypothesis that tho the lako lake was once marine lie ho believes that it hag bas always been fresh and that tho the fauna fatina peculiar to it has had a twofold origin A part has originated originate I in the lake itself during the long ages of tta its existence and the rest la Is a portion of the thorle fresh water fauna of siberia rIft whick it has haa preserve preserved de japan advertiser |