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Show Desert Animals Thai Scorpions Can't Harm ' One of Che uiosi fascinating chap ,,,,. In animal poisons is the suhjert f natural immunity, the fact thai some animals are Immune ro the .oi sons of others and remain unhurt if s,,,,,.. or nil ten by the pois.,nous ani ',,,.,1,'wheieas all other sons of beasts slleelllllh. A ease In point I that of desert .mined which are unharmed by a scorpion's sling. The d.-seri fox. ihe k.,,,..roo rat and other inhabitants of ,,,'.rt. where scorpions a md are In ,,,s happv position Their sins li'vin- far away from the desert, would . once he scri---l injure,' hy a ..rpion's sling, whereas the desert n,.,,,.,! remain unhurt. It is to h,- sup ,,osed that in tne far disiuni past. before the desert animals had this , complete immunity to scorpion venom, rhose which were stung and could not resist died, leaving no offspring Their luckier brothers, who happened to have a hardier constitution, survived and left behind them a resistant race of descendants. Prof. H. Munro Eos in rile Forum |