Unsuspected Animals
([ HE number of small animals which are actually \4 living unperceived all around us is astoundingly large. I was once studying the animals in a pine wood and took a sample consisting of pine needles
4fTOm one Square foot of ground, From this, after several days of labour examining the material meedile by needle, I collected Over twelve hundred animals of many different kinds. These were picked out by eye only; no doubt more refined means would have yielded far more. To give another example, one investigator ‘Obtained over 250 million ani-
mals per acre in a pasture field. The presence of these vast numbers of small animals is unsuspected by most people and yet on their activities depends ‘the quality and texture of the soil and consequently its plant covering, and é¢ven to some extent the actual form of the landscape. — (Professor B. J. Marples, "The Animal Community,’ 4YA, July 2).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 8
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154Unsuspected Animals New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 8
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