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Show organic living ananimiialls warm fi pMcii(tfiDQ by Robert Rodale IF HUMANKIND ever succeeds in killing off the last remaining wildlife on this planet, we will surely be in trouble. Not just because hunters wont have anything to hunt, or because zoos will have to close. The anirtal kingdom is much more important to us than that. Scientists are finding new evidence that animals actually serve as a kind of g system" for our environment. Many of us have heard stories of how miners once carried caged canaries down into the pits with them. If the bird died, the miner was alerted that carbon monoxide gas was pres early-warnin- ent in toxic quantities. That system worked well because the canary is highly sensitive to carbon monoxide. Now we are learning that the interactions between living creatures and their environment are often incredibly more comlex. But one principle still holds time. By observing the behavior of animals, we can gain valuable environmental clues about possible trouble to come. FOR INSTANCE, tiny quantities of spilled oil in sea water are disrupting the life functions of the New England lobster, reports Dr. John Todd of the Woods Painting Casement Windows Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod. Even as little as a few parts per million of oil affect the tiny sensing hairs on the lobsters antennae, he fouqd. Vital carried messages substances chemical by called pheromones become scrambled, affecting the lobsters eating and social behavior. if man takes the time to We are looking at an early monitoring system, Dr. Todd says.- It is possible that certain pollutants' - - could make it impossible for marine life to communicate. . The lobsters sex pheromone, for example, might be destroyed, suppressed, . or mimicked by pollution. ! 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THE CAUSE was excess fluoride deposits in the animals, a University of Min- nesota scientist found. The aluminum company admitted to fluoride emissions of up to 7,500 pounds a day in the past. Here are some other examples of animals serving as pollution sentinels: . . . When animals at the Staten Island Zoo sickened and died in 1971, authorities traced the problem to lead fallout pollution. Lead from the polluted atmo- sphere had poisoned the ani- mals, concluded Ralph Strebel, the investigating pathol-- ' ogist. The findings have ominous implications for the people who live in that area of the city, said Strebel. The zoo animals could potentially serve as barometers of the medical effects of the variety of pullutants in the citys air. . . . Researchers in Vir- ginia are using bluegills to gain more information on water quality and the effects of pullutants. A large New Jersey pharmaceutical manufacturer boasts in advertisements that fish serve' as its unpaid- ecology con- sultants. Treated waste water frbm its plant flows into a huge aquarium stocked with marine life. If the fish live and thrive, the effluent is released into the Delaware River. . . . Because the Olds- - 1 quaw duck soaks up pest- icides like a sponge, researchers in Wisconsin are using those waterfowl as instruments to measure the contamination of Lake Michigan. They claim the-- , ducks make a living gauge. I! of pesticides in the lake. . . . EUROPEAN scientists were clued in to the ' overuse of the dangerously when potent herbicide 2, gamehird populations start-ed to dip a few years back. French researchers Yvonne . g and Hubert Lutz discovered that 2, . accelerated the death rate and caused physical and sexual abnormalities in pheasants and grey partridges. . 4-- , Lutz-Osterta- 4-- ( by ELBERT WORTMAN Con yoa decipher this quotation without the anagrams? First figure out the obvious definitions and write the answers ever numbered dashes. Copy these letters into the squares of diagram. 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