Show CAN FORETELL THE WEATHER scientist thinks anima and birds have that are the tree toads swallows and fishes trustworthy barometers prof robert of 0 the university ot of prague assured assures the world that many species of 0 animals probably sense electric wave emanating from distant storms the local electric electric tev ten slon the ionizing of 0 the atmosphere the permeability of 0 higher strata to light in small waves and the aam atm atmospheric pharic pressure pressure as well as moisture and temperature and by certain combinations bi of such perceptions are reflexively flex ively led to special actions that stand in a casual relation to the coming weather the question whether the high or low flight respectively of 0 the insects and the behavior of the fishes tree frogs and swallows standing in connection therewith can be used as weather indications seems to him to be not finally answered so far as the scientific investigations permit a conclusion no connection exists indeed but since an instinctive accommodation of the conduct of the insects to the coming weather Is possible and undoubtedly would be extremely advantageous to them lie he deems it nevertheless not impossible that such a one exists in fact |