Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1896 — Dwellers in the Dark. [ARTICLE]

Dwellers in the Dark.

There are two remarkable classes of animals living beyond the reai-h of daylight, namely, blind cave animals and inhabitants of the abysses of the sea. These two desses, whose surroundings are so very different, have many, resemblance?, but in one respect, as Doctor Lydekker has shown, they are sharply contrasted. Cave animals are content to swim and crawl in complete darkness; deep-sea animals, prodaee.a phosphorescent light for their own use. The inhabitants of the caves enjoy an extraordinary development of the senses of touch, hearing and, smell, while those of the ocean depths are furnished with peculiar organs for both the proseason received cards far what the gen-