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...seemed like an extraordinary display of chimp intelligence, but retired Harvard Psychologist B.F. Skinner was certain that creatures much lower in the evolutionary pecking order could be conditioned to communicate in a similar way. Now the famed behaviorist and two of his students have published convincing evidence in Science to support his controversial belief...
...Animal Behaviorist Frans de Waal of the State University of Utrecht had a better idea. Why not try to find another mother for Roosje? Her keepers chose Kuif, a high-ranking female in the colony. A worker began vigils outside Kuif s night cage holding bottle and babe. At first, Kuif did her best to hide her keen curiosity; in the chimp world, no one is supposed to approach a newborn without its mother's consent. After two weeks, Roosje was placed inside Kuifs cage, and to the scientists' delight, Kuif immediately cuddled her new charge, took...
Willard conceived her novel idea while doing postdoctoral work under famed Behaviorist B.F. Skinner, who has managed such unlikely feats of animal training as teaching pigeons to play Ping Pong. Encouraged by Skinner, Willard decided to turn to primates as aides for the paralyzed because of the animals' grasping ability. She settled on capuchin monkeys. Only 1% ft. high, they have long been used by organ-grinders, are highly intelligent, far more malleable than larger monkeys, and can live up to 30 years...
...Girls in Their Summer Dresses a womanizer's roving eye finally set ties on the most beautiful legs in the room: his wife's-a comment on male sexuality that says more than any behaviorist manual. Act of Faith, in which a Jewish soldier trades in a pistol to treat his Christian buddies to drinks, is an explanation of the Masada complex that remains undated. Mixed Doubles, the story of a couple whose on-court skirmishes reveal a betrayed trust, seems doubly acute in a time of Inner Tennis...
...incendiary bats," which would come to rest under the eaves of buildings and set off small fire bombs attached to their chests. The Swedes had plans for using trained kamikaze seals to blow up submarines, and the Soviets for bomb-carrying dogs to attack tanks. In the 1940s, Behaviorist B.F. Skinner proposed installing a trained pigeon in front of a screen in the nose of a missile to guide it to a target. The U.S. Army trained dogs for jungle patrol duty in Viet Nam. The dogs would lie down when they met a wounded man, stand still if they...