Word: zoologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case involved Zoologist Peter...
...supervise communications between the last frontier and the cloth, Hefner chose onetime Zoologist Anson Mount, the magazine's football editor, appointed him six months ago to head a new religion department. People who saw this move as a rather amusing put-on overestimate Hefner's sense of humor. It was all very serious, and frivolous staffers were discouraged from making jokes involving "sermon" and "Mount." Recalls the new religion editor: "I found myself over my head with things like personhood, demythologizing, Bonhoeffer. So I went to Hefner and said, 'Man, I've got to go off to school and learn...
Traveling in Tanzania on a National Geographic Society photographic expedition, Zoologist Jane Goodall and her photographer husband Hugo van Lawick came upon an abandoned ostrich nest. Two ostrich eggs left in the nest were under attack by a variety of vultures, which were trying vainly to peck through the tough shells. While the Van Lawicks watched and photographed, they reported last week in Nature, two Egyptian vultures took a novel approach to their problem...
Each half-hour program deals expertly with one specific scientific advance and the personality of the pioneer who made it possible. "The scientist becomes a protagonist," says Herbert, "a man with a struggle." The premiere featured Cornell Zoologist Perry Gilbert and his studies on "Attack Patterns of Sharks...
...Southeast Asian swamplands, it has long been observed that thousands of fireflies flash together, lighting up trees with the regularity of neon signs. This synchronous flashing has never been adequately explained. North American fireflies generally light individually or sometimes in uncoordinated group flashing. Writing in Nature, Zoologist John Buck and his wife believe that the Asian male fireflies' synchronous flashing is actually a photic call that lures females to the trees for mass mating. Because the Asian undergrowth is so dense, the male insects use rhythmic beaconing in order to shine through and be seen by the females...