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Giraffes fascinate physiologists, as well as children at the zoo. The most interesting point about them, physiologically, is that they manage to keep their heads supplied with the proper amount of blood. When a full-grown giraffe lowers its neck to drink and then raises it upright, its head changes level by 19 ft.-from 7 ft. below its heart to 12 ft. above it. Some fancy hydraulics is obviously called for to keep the blood flowing properly at all times...
...Communists' entrenched privileges. But he had gotten nowhere on Italy's much-needed social and economic reforms. Skillful on the teeter-totter of politics, he had merely avoided falling to the left or falling to the right by a careful balancing that kept him and his government upright but accomplished little else...
...Britton chimps normally walked on all fours, standing upright only when excited or when they wanted to look around. But they could be made to stand upright for as much as eight hours by being put on a tilting table. The erect posture caused a greater flow of blood to the brain. Dr. Britton believes that when man's apelike, allfours ancestors started to walk on their hind legs, their brains grew bigger...
...legs? Dr. Britton installed a female chimp named Bonga on a small island in a lake at Charlottesville, Va. Bonga could not swim and therefore had to make the best of it, even though the Virginia winter soon brought snow. When there was snow on the ground, Bonga walked upright, apparently to keep her hands and belly from getting cold...
This thinks Dr. Britton, may be how it all started. When glaciers crept down a million years ago, chilling the climate, the ape men walked upright to keep their hands out of the snow. Their brains got more blood and grew bigger. Then the ape men, according to the Britton theory, started the long intellectual climb that turned them into...