| Show HATCH EGGS ON THEIR FEET penguins of region have some strange characteristics says zoology professor the emperor penguin of the antarctic which has not even a nest lays a single ongle egg that must not touch cold ice and Is hatched out ou on the parents feet writes dr richard A P ski instructor in zoology university of missouri in an article on maternal instincts published in america the mother he continues has a bare patch of skin on the under side ringed with long feathers to surround the egg and later the chick this oils affords both the necessary warmth other strange manifestations of maternal instinct died cited by do doctor etor are certain venezuelan frogs which place their eggs upon their backs whence a little parapet of skin prevents their falling the most astonishing manifestation however Is that of the mother scorpion who Is literally devoured by her children aldren ch and permits them to do so we stand perplexed at the complexity of nn an instinct which causes the mother to submit calmly to dismemberment without offer of resistance yet this same instinct causes her at t the he S same ame time to word ward oft off any foreign intruder who might interfere with the dismemberment and perhaps save her life |
