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Slow Hearts and Fast
Every Creature Has One
Getting right down to basic
fundamentals, heartbeats are
just about the most important
thing that can occur in any liv
ing creature, man, mouse or
oyster.
They are much more import'
ant than the price you may get
for a piece of real estate, or
how much money you have or
have not acquired. They, the
heartbeats, are also important
to the lesser beings which, like
us, live and move and breathe.
Heartbeats occur differently in
nearly every level of animal life.
They may be fast, slow, feeble:
strong or even intermittent, de
pending on the owner s species.
and how or where he lives. Some
heartbeats are so quiet and slow
they are almost impossible to
detect, even when the sound is
boosted by electrical amplifiers.
Naturally, being cold-blooded
and requiring very little oxygen
in order to live, the frogs, toads,
turtles and fish have slow and
feeble heartbeats. In fact, listen
ing to some of them, we imag
ine the heart has stopped or at
least it is coasting for consider
able intervals of time. An alli
gator in cold weather, or a frog,
removed from the mud of a
pond where it is living out the
cold spell, has a heartbeat, but
it sure docs not amount to
much.
With an electric listening de
vice we have to bear down hard
in order to hear it at all. There
is a long interval between
bumps, and usually it doesn't
even occur at regular intervals.
It seems to have lost its rhythm
entirely and trips only occasion
ally.
May Even Skip A Beat
Under actual timing, the heart
of a trog or an alligator thumps
half-heartedly once every three
or four minutes. It may even
skip a couple of beats, then
feebly tick again.
In comparison, the heart of an
oyster plunks along rather reg
ularly. 11 is smaller than an
aspirin tablet. Whether you ever
thought about it or not, the
oyster's heart is a pretty "cute"
gadget, and mighty important to
the oyster.
The human heart clicks along
at about 72 beats a minute, in
creases its speed after violent
exercise. The more activity the
more oxygen is needed, and the
faster the heart action. It's
just as simple as that.
Some of the larger animals,
the horse and cow, have strong,
regular heartbeats, but slower
than the human beat. The ele
phant, largest of the land ani
mals, has the slowest. It lum
bers along at about 35 to the
minute. The reason is concerned
with bulk, that is, bulk plus the
oxygen supply, and the neces
sary heat and energy to keep
the heart going.
The heartbeat of birds is pret
ty fast. These little pumps in
feathered breasts rattle along at
110 to 120, or even 200 beats
to the minute. Under magnified
amplifiers, and excited para
keet's heartbeat drums along at
a break-neck clip. It sounds a
little like the opening bars of a
' fast rock'n roll number. And,
along with this triphammer
heartbeat, the bird's normal
temperature goes up to about
300 degrees.
Mouse Has Speedy Heart
The creature's heartbeat that
makes all the others seem like
Blow motion is that of the
mouse. Talk about a clatter:
this heartbeat compares to the
clatter of a machine gun. It
beats nearly 600 times a min
ute. The strange fact about the
rapidity of a mouse-beat is what
keeps the tiny organ from jump
ing right out of the little body,
or what prevents the mouse
from coming apart.
The old alligator, whose heart
beat blunders along every once
in while, lives to be a hundred
years old, while the poor little
mouse does well to keep his
heart pumping (or two years.
And with all the overdrive, and
rapid speed, there is no vibra
tion. If there was, the mouse
couldn't sit still long enough to
eat a piece of cheese.
The mouse doesn't appreciate
what a jnderfully speedy me
chanism his heart it. Neither
do the rest of us where it con
cerns our own heart, until the
swishing thump-thump, doesn't
sound any more. Then you've
had it. And just before this, you
may suddenly realize that a
heartbeat, above and beyond
anything else in the world, is
the most important thing that
can occur, whctherou happen
to be a man, or a mouse or an
ovster.
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Named to College Post
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He is a junior in music educ
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lie is a 11 graduate of Cra
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