The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 42, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 19, 1994 Page: 3 of 30
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Mercedes, Texas 78570 Wednesday, October 19, 1994
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For me, I’ll always be biased to think, other way, it would have looked as if
rivers, in Mesopotamia (present-day equator. Try to tell that to a Kiwi or an chanical timekeeping devices would
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that the sun moves the right way when
you’re north of the equator, and the
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tians, Indians or Chinese, the shadow
moved around in what we now think of
as clockwise. A few hundred years
ago, when artisans living in the north-
ern" hemisphere made the first me-
chanical time-keepers, it was only natu-
ral to arrange for the hands to move in
the same direction as the shadow on
the sundial.
If they’d made the hands move the
P.O. Box 657, Mercedes,
Texas 78570.
Pumas and jaguars may have over- :
lapping ranges, but they have little
interaction. Indeed, they seem to mu-
tually avoid one another.
way through the sky: it goes from right
to left. It still rises in the east and sets
in the west, but seen from the other
side of the equator, its in the north side
of the sky. Here in the northern hemi-
sphere, of course, it’s in the south.
Even though I lived in New Zealand
for four years, I never got used to that.
the direction that shadows on ancient
time-keeping devices, sundials, go.
As the sun moves through the day,
the shadow cast by the upright piece of
the sundial, the gnomon, moves in
what we think of as the direction of
clockwise, and early clock makers
emulated the movement of the shadow.
• Suppose, however, that civiliza-
tion had arisen in the southern hemi-
sphere. I was taught at school that
civilization arose on the four great
are five to six months old. The cubs
usually remain with the mother until
they are one and one-half to two years
old.
Females reach sexual maturity in
two to three years and males in three to
four years. Apparently, few jaguars
live to be older than 11 years in nature,
but captives may live to be 22 years
old.
The major cause of mortality is
hunting by man. Young jaguars are
reported to be eaten by other jaguars,
crocodilians and large snakes. Ven-
omous snakes may also take a small
toll.
Jaguars are most commonly found
in areas with considerable plant cover,
a reliable water supply and sufficient
prey. They have been reported from
time were going backwards.
So if civilization had arisen in the
southern hemisphere, the first me- A
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The jaguar, Pantera onca, is the
I largest cat in the new world.
I A large male may be 28 inches tall
I at the shoulder and weigh 200 pounds.
I Females usually are 10 to 20% smaller
I' than males.
[ The distribution of the jaguar once
I extended from Arizona, New Mexico
and Texas southward to southern Ar-
gentina, but hinting pressure and habi-
tat destruction have eliminated the
species from much of its former range.
It is now extinct in the United States.
Jaguars are profusely spotted at all
. ages. The pelage is short and rather
bristly. The ground color is buffy to
tan and the spots are blackish, often
the centers of the spots are lightly
colored.
White predominates on the throat,
belly, and insides of the limbs. Mela-
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say, on the banks of the Plata, or Plate, and marking the position of the sun’s
River, in South America, our notion of shadow throughout the day.
clockwise would probably be differ- For the Mesopotamians, or Egyp-
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FIRST SETS OF STUDENTS OF THE MONTH Cavazos. Not shown is Estrellita Renderos.
from Travis Elementary School are shown Fourth graders below are, in front, Lizeth
above and below. Third grade winners for Solis, Teresa Valenzuela, Michael Vasquez,
September are, above, in front from left, Elisa Tanya Ligas, Josefina Gonzalez, and Kelly
Rodriguez, Eleazar Marquez, Perla Ramirez, Pena. In same order in middle are Antonio
Rosa Nallely Juarez and Christine Valdez. In Schmidt, Eliza Huerta, Joanna Solis, Erika
same order in middle row are Jose Alan Escobar, Ruby Galicia and Jaime Gonzalez.
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Angelica Briones, Mayra Cortezand Omar de Rodriguez, Jose Trevino, Juan Johnson,
Hoyos. In back are Belen Villarreal, Narce Amanda Kelley, Kristin Esparza and Mrs.
Plascencia, Lorena Pena, Jose Vasquez, Cavazos.
Iraq) near the confluence of the Tigris Aussie! almost certainly have gone the other J
and Euphrates; in Egypt, along the The first clocks used the sun’s ap- way, what to us in the “real world” 1
Nile; in India, near the Indus; and in parent motion through the sky as a would be counterclockwise. But then 7
China, by the Yangtze. Notice these crude time-keeping device. The earli- it would never have occurred to us to
are all in the northern hemisphere. est sundials were probably made by question the the direction the clocks 1
0 If civilization had instead started, simply pushing a stick into the ground moved. I
By definition those other-world
clocks would, of course, have gone ■
clockwise!
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nistic (solid black) jaguars are fairly rainforest, low scrub jungle, semi-de-
common, but albinos are rare. ciduous forest, open woodlands
In captivity births have been re- swampy savanna, thorn scrub, plains
corded in nearly every month of the and deserts.
year. But, in nature in Belize the young Density varies with habitat, but
are usually born during the rainy sea- often is about one per 12.5 to 25 square
son when prey is most abundant. kilometers. Jaguar rarely kill white-
Gestation lasts 91 to 111 days and tailed deer, but they do take brocket
litter size ranges from one to four deer and marsh deer. They are fond of
cubs. Females have four nipples and peccaries, capybaras, pacas, agoutis,
50% of them have two cubs. The cubs armadillos, caimans and turtles.
are about 16 inches long at birth and They eat a great variety of foods
weigh approximately one and three- including some grass. Jaguars prima-
fourths pounds. rily hunt at night and on the ground.
They begin to walk at 18 days and They catch their prey by stalking or
to eat meat at 10 to 11 weeks. How- ambush and kill it by biting through
Why Do Clocks Go Clockwise? ent today. There, to our northern-con-
Clocks go clockwise because that’s ditioned eyes, the sun moves the wrong
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