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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1963)
o a SSCTION 3 PAGES 1 lo 10 o MedfordvjTribunbJ ftj oVr-i CHARGE rENNEYS5 last-minute1 1 181 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER I, 1963 0, THEM JOmm Small ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY 0 DOWNTOWN . . . MEDFORD Worlds Around Us By lynn W. Watkins OPEN 'Til 9 p.m. EVERY NIGHT THIS WEEK Including Saturday! 8 Juditrr & Tribune Syndicate, 1563; Too Selective An Appetite Is Dangerous for Survival There are of course other reasons, but one very impor tant one that accounts tor the world's exploding human popu lation is the fact the human animal is omnivorous, and will eat anything and everything, flesh or vegetable, while those poor unfortunates that are mon ophagous, have become so spe cialized in their food require ments they will starve to death because of one specific food. In this living world there are at least two that are truly omni vorous man and rat. Rats will probably outlive all other four-foots on this earth, except some of the domestic animals, the reason being their wide and lengthy range of food. Both will, can, and do, eat anything, vege table or animal, that grows, swims, flics, crawls, runs, or walks. Those animal species that have survived are those whose food preferences are adjustable. Too much specialization can be dis astrous. Very definitely nature made a mistake when she cre ated creatures that must depend on special foods; a few are so ' restricted they can subsist only -on one or two kinds. The vegetarians of course will not eat meat; neither will the true carnivores eat vegetable matter, but even these two classes of animals are painfully selective. A carnivore will eat anything of flesh, or the vegeta ble eater will eat any sort of vegetation. The bear, a carni vore, will eat berries; a dog will eat certain plant materials. Anti-Survival This somewhat limited special ization is not so potentially dan gerous as that which restricts an animal's food to a specific item. There are several of these, and all are constantly on the anti-survival list. Always they are balanced on the knife-edge. One of the lowly ones is the silkworm who cannot be fooled into eating anything except the leaves of the mulberry tree. A shortage of that particular tree ! equals a resultant shortw;e of silkworms. Even more pathetic is the plight of the cunning little ; Koala beat of Australia. It is one of the marsupials, related to our opossum, which will eat nnlv the leaves of the eucalyptus tree. Without that one specific kind of food the little things wither away and die. Already their range is restricted, almost as much as their diet require ments, as many areas.'of the trees are being destroyed. Final Doom The destruction by accident, design or disease, of large areas of common eel grass in tidal flats or ponds, will spell final doom to brants, a duck - like form of wild geese, for without eel grass on which to feed the birds' numbers decline. The only survival insurance these animals have, whose diet specialization demands a speci fic food, is the . continuance of that one food. The necessity, de sire, or ability to eat anything and everything, will assure-the continuation of that particular species. Those with too selective an appetite can look ahead to pretty hard times; they are uad fy out of balance on the biologi cal teeter-totter. Homes Director to i Speak at Meetings Miss Elda Russell, executive director of the Albertina Kerr Homes in Portland, will address a meeting of Medford public school teachers at Hedrick Jun ior High school Sept. 3. She also will speak at a com bined meeting of the Rotary and Lions clubs at noon Tuesday. Miss Russell has been in charge of the Albertina Kerr Homes for the past fifteen years. Albertina Kerr Homes is a Multiple service agency oper ating s Albertina Kerr Nurs ery, Lews Hte far Girls d Jwasils Clinic. 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