Shrikes and Insect Larder on Thorn Tree
A Westminster Gazette piece muses on red backed shrikes impaling insects on thorns, notes the butcher bird’s bold behavior and family care, and ponders nature’s cruelty as a grim, vivid drama without human malice. The essay contrasts instinct with morality and ends reflecting on life and death in the animal kingdom.
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Thorne
Great Britain
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Mare hybrid shown by Water Rothschild at British Museum
The Westminster Gazette reports a unique cross between Alpine bee characteristics and an Italian domesticated goat. The male hybrid displays a shaggy coat and beard like a skex, white eye and nose marks, and goatlike horns without knobs. Alpine fhex is nearly extinct in the Swiss Alps and Tyrol but survives on the Piedmontese Monte Stosa side, protected by the King of Italy.
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Water Rothschild
British Museum of Natural History
Iber
Telegraphy In China Opens First Line in 1872
The London Globe notes China’s first telegraph line began in 1872 and now spans about 15,000 miles under Imperial control. It explains the syllabic Chinese system, where numbers are transmitted and printed from the reverse end to reveal characters.
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China
London Globe
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