Word: zoologists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ants in an area, says EPA Entomologist Sam Fluker, "to get rid of that last 5% might take an additional 100 treatments." In fact, the battle against the ants has yielded so little and cost so much-$148 million in federal and state funds to date-that Harvard University Zoologist Edward O. Wilson calls it "the Viet Nam of entomology...
Gerald Durrell, the English zoologist and author (Menagerie Manor), is aghast at such man-dog relationships. Says he, "I can't stand these fubsy people who tell you, 'Oh, my dog talks.' This is anthropomorphism gone mad. I can't stand this business of people keeping Pekingese on silk cushions and feeding them creme of chicken...
...thousands all over the U.S., fell victim to pesticides, which made their eggshells too thin to survive, and now there are fewer than 200 pairs left (except in Alaska). "The impending demise of this beautiful falcon is one of the ecological tragedies of the modern age," says Zoologist Clayton M. White of Brigham Young University. White has helped set up the United Peregrine Society, which plans to build a sanctuary near Klamath Falls, Ore. The aim is to find the falcons' remote nesting places and remove the birds and eggs to man-made shelters. White, who keeps four pairs...
After careful observation of many groups of wrasse, D.R. Robertson, a zoologist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, found that the death or disappearance of a male has a startling effect on one of the several female fish in his harem: she becomes a male. Within a few hours of her liberation from the influence of a male, the head female in the harem begins to display male mannerisms. She reconnoiters the borders of the absent male's territory and pays aggressive calls on the other females. Within four days her courtship and spawning behavior cannot be distinguished...
Tsunoda and Los Angeles Zoologist Eugene Nitta, 24, were hired by the U.S. Department of Commerce this summer to record the sex and length of every catch towed to Japan's seven whaling ports and to send the data to the regulatory International Whaling Commission in London. Their object is to try to make sure that Japan's $100 million-a-year whaling industry, the world's largest, does not violate international standards (no pregnant whales and none smaller than 35 ft. can be taken...