Show Oi Queer eer New Discoveries About Snakes and nd Alli Alligators SCENT experiment ou by bT Dr Werner of Vienna show abow that reptiles are stronger creatures thin than any one OliO had bad supposed c The They hue hare certain S Whirs which are ab absolutely lacking In III n human beings being and in ta compensation come omo of our senses are re wanting such as hearing bearing Doth Both amphibians and most reptiles reptile are aro lovers or of water and in consequence bare developed a faculty of ot locating w water tor ne How this sense work works la Is difficult to say ay for man bas bu no DO trace of It In nil all probability probability ability the water or organ organ n Is some some- where in the skull of ot the creature That It Is no development of or t th the Jel of or smell or taste uste was demonstrated by sealing e a n quantity of water ina In Ina InI a I metal container and concealing It 11 from some Mme reptiles The creatures p speedily UT lo located 10 o t cited d the water and busied tb in III p- p futile attempts to get iet at ot It No Instrument known to science Jenc Tra s 16 able nl to show the presence of ot the tho liquid Professor Werner U La of the that the water sense is made mode possible by br porno kort wort of or chemical affinity in is Inbe the be cells eclis of lb reptiles reptile's nostrils As yet these cells have n. n not DOt be been n detected Another queer tense sense it le located in ID they the y forked tongue which U is constantly darted in n And out of ot the mouths of or snakes Nearly all reptiles are ue deaf deif They can hear bear absolutely nothing as we do through 11 our ears ear but the they make air wares ware with their too tongues rue and feel teel these thYe waves when en they ther rebound from object objects Lie tongue comes back to him hlaJ only from the direction of the ground As t too loc long as u this Is ia so 60 be be- knows there U II nothing la In n his bis way far end and nd be racy day go 0 ahead as u fast rut asbe as 13 ho lit pleases Jeue Eight t IB fa toe the most CO acute tI of ot all the tb senses CUI of reptiles cod amphibians Alligators not only oaly see well w but e see e c forward backward en n i r without turning their heeds bead v S 1 I 1 In ab absolute darkness a snake can cnn mo mon ss t about avoiding obstacles without touching ng t buy any one ono of them |