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Geographic Oddities

: Hie highest inhabited town on earth is Gartok, va busy tradftrg center in western Tibet. Gartok stands at 15,000 feet above sea level, an altitude higher than thj tallest mountain in the United states. ! Geese hatched in an incubator will attach themselves to birds! of other species or even to human beings whom they follow about: as if they were real parents. This so called “imprinting” takes only a minute or so. But once it has happened, the geese will not switch over, even to their own parents.

To malt themselves beautiful, girls in New Guinea rouge their whole faces — forehead, chin, and alL

A brook trout may. lay as many as 4,000 eggs in £ single "redd” or nest scooped in a stream bottom. She covers the eggs with gravel to protect them against predators &d flobds. £ '

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