THE LIVING SUBMARINE
One respect in which the otters eclipse a human swimmer is the facility with which they run at the bottom of a st -earn, but we need not wonder at th % when we remember that the biggest o ail the fresh water amphibians, the lordly hippopotamus, does precisely the same thing. With ears and nostrils defended by valves against flooding, the great beast stumps along the bed of its native river, and rises only to breathe and to sleep. But the babies of’ the tribe are not so longwinded as their parents: they must breathe frequently, and this it is that accounts for the diverting pictures of the little one mounted on its mother's back, high if not dry. in the open air, while the great living submarine is sedately parading out of sight below.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 137, 31 August 1927, Page 6
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138THE LIVING SUBMARINE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 137, 31 August 1927, Page 6
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