Show conditions taij atiat unite io IP animal kingdom A conference of e eminent se scientist recently rilet met at the estate of copley amory of washington and boston at matacek Mata mek quebec for ten days ecologists that Is st students of 0 animal life in relation to its surround ings discussed problems and und find iii c in their particular fields of ornithology mammo logy marine biology etc the results of the conference were so profitable that pl plans ans for another meeting in 1931 1934 1 were made and a committee appointed to formulate a permanent organization one of the points especially stressed in the discussion was wag the interrelation of the various animal groups including man fluctuations in one species are often felt throughout the animal kingdom certain i varieties are of such buell impo importance artance that they are known as key animals 11 mice and mlee lahe alke rodents rodent itra key animals in many parts of the world when mice are abundant in the canadian northwest foxes snowy owls wolves and beats bears cease to prey on partridges when the mice decline animal A turn again to game and eskimos and indians suffer for food weasels and ermine lie die out in numbers when mice are scarce and snowy owls fly south in search of food only to die in the warm climate |