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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 191, 30 August 1937, Page 5

Hundreds of miles of electric soilhoatiug cabie have been buried iu tlie ground ior euclr ordinary agyicultural purposes as supplying heat for hot beds, cold irames, propagating benehes, germinators and other horticultural applications. Now, in tbe Brookfield Zoo at Chicago, 600 feet of the cable is being used to warm the feet of alligators and turtles. Mr Edward Bean, director of the zoo, noticcd that the reptiles were sluggish durixig the cold weather^ even though the thermometers indicated comfortable room temperatures. The alligators and turtles moved so slowly they hardly seemed alive ; they did not care to eat; they avoided the sand in the reptile house. Bean fouud that the sand was too cold for comfort, as far as the reptiles were coneerned. He then installed 600 feet of soil-bcating cable, anj tliereupon the inhabitants of tbe reptile house resumed norma! activitiejs.