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SECTION B PAGES 1 to 10 Mbdfordtribune pur 1V1VF V'Q fo) Ml Ji. U1U1JJ1 U) Small Worlds Around Us lynn W. Witkint Ik T,lbua. .r.-..:. .... Man Transported In Air But Is Far From Flyinc a teattier isawondcrful j miB; us ioucn is light and gen tie; those unsteady folks who could be knocked over with a feather ' arc really in a bad -.r. nidi oia proverb is mean ingless, but it's Sllnnnsorf (n !,); cate how unstable we are at the time. But the feather itself is more complicated than a casual uuaervauon would indicate. -There are of course, several kinds of feathers, even on the same bird, and all cleverly de signed to serve a specific pur pose. The bird itself the crea- lure tnai grows the feathers, is a highly specialized piece of ap. f?" awa. even us Dones are umereni irom other animals, they are hollow instead of being filled with marrow. Contributing . to extreme lightness without sacrificing strength, thev are ajr-wuea. Within the body of the bird . is a complicated chemical mcchanism that grows feathers instead ot hair, and is so ar ranged that the feathers are shed, or moulted in its wings; strong, but still with great flex ibility; tail feathers are simi lar. Too, most birds have under feathers, under other feathers; those that round out the bird's body are called contour feath ers; under these are the deli cately fine, fluffy feathers call ed "down." These lack the stiffening shaft, or vane of the tail or flight feathers, and have practically no weight at all; they insulate the bird's body against heat and cold. Immature Feathers Pinfeathers are the immature feathers that the bird starts off with shortly after emerging from the egg. Pinfeathers de velop from the bird's skin, from tiny pits, and are ted with blood and nourishment. When the pin feather becomes a fully devel oped feather the blood supply is automatically cut off, and the feather, although still attached to the skin, is lifeless and capa ble of no further growth. They have no nerve, and no feeling. -. Prick a pinfeather and the bird jumps, injure an adult feather , and the bird feels no pain, no sensation. Nature took many things into consideration when, she arrang ed the moulting of feathers from a bird'd body. She, Mother Na ture, designed these not so sim ple objects we call feathers, to be moulted only when new ones were ready to replace the old, so that the gird would not ex perience a single interval when flight was impossible. Those birds whose wing feathers are shed, as in some of the water fowl, must hide themselves dur ing the time new flight feathers are forming. Specialized Organs Of course, a bird is a biped; so are we, and actually the bird flies by waving what in the hu man animal would be its arms; and the wings, like our arms,, are highly specialized organs. With its feathers, its hollow, air-filled bones, and its stream lined body, the bird accomplish es something toward which man has always aspired free and easy flight. We constantly brag about our ability to fly, an utter I ly ridiculous statement. Watch a sea gull soar over head, or come to rest on the sand without a sound or a trem or, or a song bird come to a graceful stop on a swaying tree branch. Compare these mo tions with the thunderous and prolonged rush of an airplane, and you cannot honestly say, j that man can fly. Just because; a man operates an airplane, or rides in one, doesn't make him j n flyer; man has not come anyj closer to flying than has a rab-i bit, or a puppy dog. The fact is ; he never will fly; he isn't built i that way. 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