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...researcher at Kansas State Agricultural College in the early '20s, Dr. Hisaw noticed a puzzling fact about the pocket gopher: the animal, for turning around in its narrow burrow, has a very narrow pelvis, and its compressed pubic bones come together in a bridge (called the symphysis), which leaves an opening much too small for the female to deliver her young. But when a female becomes pregnant, the symphysis somehow dissolves, the opening widens...
...platypus amuses most people by its funny name and its funny face (see cut). A very primitive link between mammals and aquatic birds, the platypus is a duckbilled, web-footed, molelike creature that nurses its young. It nests in a burrow in a river bank. The female lays small (¾ in. long), soft-shelled eggs...
...Healesville platypus was born after Curator David Fleay, as an experiment, gave Jill some nesting material. She promptly carried it into her burrow, soon afterward holed up for six days. When Fleay ventured to open the burrow last week, he found a fat baby, about nine weeks old, that uttered puppylike barks. Fleay is afraid to disturb the burrow further, but he thinks there may be another baby inside, because a platypus almost always lays two eggs...
Unless the Crimson basketball team spirit springs out of its hibernation and shows up with its pre-exam punch in tonight's contest with Columbia, it might as well burrow into its retreat for the rest of the season, taking with it one of the saddest basketball records in the recent history of the game at Harvard...
...reading in books. All the tomes will have been made over into microfilm reels, and cramming will be as good as going to the movies. After having filled up the open space between Widener and the Memorial Chapel with new library buildings, the College will have decided to burrow underground for excess storage space, and Weld will have collapsed into the Indic Philology and Semantics wing of the basement. Students will still learn in their Junior year that Widener is closed on Sundays...