Science: Storks, Whales

Of all the birds of heaven, none is more moral than the stork. Monogamy is his rule and practice. Year in and year out he cleaves to the original wife of his pouted bosom, rearing family after family with her in their first and only love-nest on some Dutchman's rooftree or in the cornice of a South European villa. So faithful and contented is the admirable stork, indeed, that he was long ago judged fit to represent the mysterious agency that brings the patter of tiny feet to human abodes. Pet storks are...

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