Word: zoologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chairman of Stanford's statistics department, describes as "excessive airfreighting of expensive minds." Moses, although he is a member of United Air Lines' 100,000-Mile Club, thinks many meetings could just as well take place with telephone conference calls. Among those who share his complaint is Zoologist Charles J. Flora, 37, of Western Washington State College, who looks on traveling to conferences as at best an unavoidable bore and at worst a deadly ritual. "You get to the point, so enervated with endless waiting and the cramped discomfort of jet flight," says Flora, "that you quit making...
Rhino! is a brilliantly scenic, instructive, timely and entertaining tale of African adventure. The hero (Robert Gulp) is a zoologist who dedicates his skills to the preservation of African wildlife; the villain (Harry Guardino) is a poacher who devotes his energies to their annihilation. Told that the villain is an excellent guide, the hero in all innocence hires him to hunt down a pair of rare white rhinos and transport them to a game preserve, where they may safely multiply. The villain, of course, secretly intends to make off with the hero's pharmic rifle, a device that fires...
...water's surface, gazelles that dart above the grasslands like big, golden bees, leopards that grow on trees like spotted, alarming fruit-and they are there in hundreds. But perhaps the most remarkable animal of all is an old male lion who, after a visit from the zoologist, rises with indomitable dignity and turns his back to the curious camera. Startling indeed to see the King of Beasts with a neat little Band-Aid on his backside...
...reach of an exciting goal: selection of the sex of an infant before conception. But how to separate sperm that produce female offspring from those that produce males? Various methods, such as the use of electric fields or care ful temperature control, produced only minimal results. Then, in India, Zoologist Bhairab Chandra Bhattacharya noticed that the upper portion of a sperm sample tended to breed more bulls; the lower portion gave more cows. Apparently this was because the sperm that produce female offspring are heavier than those that produce males and sank to the bottom of the solution...
...improve the process, Bhattacharya moved to the Max Planck Institute for Animal Breeding at Hagen, Germany, where he went to work under the direction of Zoologist Gham Gottschewski. Using rabbits, which are not only cheaper than cattle but much quicker to breed, he inseminated thousands of does with sperm that had been allowed to settle under varying conditions. His early results were not promising, but after three years of experimentation he hit on a winning combination. He mixed rabbit sperm with egg yolk and glycol, and stored the solution for twelve hours in a refrigerator at slightly above the freezing...