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Flippers, snorkles, goggles, wet
suits: Humans will don some
strange-looking equipment in
order to feel more at home in the
water. But according to Ranger
Rick’s Nature Magazine, no
matter what we wear, we simply
can’t match the aquatic abilities of
those animals who are born with
special diving gear. These super
swimmers include:
Dolphins Found in most of the
world’s oceans, these marine
mammals are equipped with a
sophisticated sonar system for
locating food, obstacles, and each
other in the dark water. The
dolphin’s eyes are covered with
thick outer layer and a gland
secretes an oily liquid which
bathes the outside of the eyes.
“The layers and the liquid
protect the dolphin’s eyes so the
salty sea water won’t make them
sting,” explains the National
Wildlife Federation’s monthly
publication for children.
Although it must come to the
surface to breathe, the dolphin can
store much more air in its lungs
than a human can. When hunting
for fish or squid, it can dive to
depths of up to 800 feet.
Sea Lions Like dolphins, sea
lions have streamlined bodies and
built-in flippers.
“With powerful strokes of these
big front flippers, a sea lion can
swim as fast as 20 miles per hour,”
reports Ranger Rick. The sea
lion’s hind flippers act as a rudder,
to keep it on course or help it
change direction.
When pursued by an enermy, sea
lions "porpoise,” or leap, through
the crest of waves offshore. This
method of “body-surfing” also
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performed by dolphins, uses less
energy than swimming below the
water’s surface. Sea lions can stay
underwater for up to 20 minutes
and can descend to at least 450 feet,
although a trained California sea
lion once set a diving record of 829
feet.
Hippopotamus How can the
heavy, clumsy-looking hippo be
classified as a super, swimmer?
“By holding in just the right
amount of air, hippos become
nearly ‘weightless’ underwater,”
explains Ranger Rick. Then they
rather gracefully half swim and
half tiptoe along river bottoms.
The hippopotamus the word
means “river horse” in Greek
must spend most of the day in the
water. Its skin dries out so fast that
the big animal would die if it
couldn’t soak in water or mud. At
night hippos emerge and graze on
land.
River Otters With its sleek,
streamlined body and tail, a river
otter can swim fast and turn
quickly, and it can dive in a flash,
leaving scarcely a ripple. Special
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Penguins These highly
specialized birds do fly, in a sense,
undetwater. Their wings are
powerful flippers Which propel
them through the water swiftly.
Penguin feathers make fantastic
“wetsuits.” Thick, short, rigid,
and overlapping, the feathers and
, a layer of fat beneath the skin keep
the birds from freezing to death in
the the icy water.
Some varieties of penguins
spend months at sea, straying
onshore only to breed, lay eggs, or
molt. While diving for food
shrimp, squid, or krill they
usually surface every two or three
minutes to breathe. This large
penguine is also a deep diver; a
vertical plunge of 885 feet has been
recorded.
Notes Ranger Rick, “That’s
almost twice as deep as the record
for a human diver with scuba gear
and the penguin was just holding
its breath!”
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Junior Cooks, if you enjoy creating delicious foods, try this
Pudding Delight:
STEP 1 N
2 cups of flour
2 sticks of butter (Melted)
1 cup of nuts (English walnuts)
Mix together in long cake pan. Bake 35 or 40 minutes or until
done in 350° oven. Let cool.
STEP 2
Boz. Phila. cream cheese
1 cup of lOx sugar
1 cup Cool Whip (LARGE size), save enough of cool whip out of
container for Step 4.
Spread on top of crust.
STEPS
2 boxes of instant pudding (small) and it is usually good to use
1 box of vanilla with one box of your favorite flavor.
3 cups of milk.
Mix and put on top of your cream cheese layer.
STEP 4
Put the remainder of cool whip on top of pudding layer.
Refrigerate for a few hours before serving.
Warwick FFA’ers win
at Ephrata Fair
LITITZ Three Warwick
students successfully showed their
hogs in the Ephrata Fair’s market
hog show last week.. , .
Capturing reserve champion
title in the Heavyweight was
Marvin Porch of Lititz.
Deb Stauffer, showing two hogs,
placed second m the Class 4
division of the lightweight
category and first in the Class 8
division of the mediumweight
class.
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and tourth in the respective weight (
class in the Mediumweight class. \i
In the market lamb show, David
Spoo won fifth in' the 'Suffolk
division and captured Champion
titter.
In addition to competing in
livestock events, Warwick par
ticipated in the county FFA tractor
driving contest. Todd. Miller
captured sixth place in the contest.
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