Word: zoologists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mountain Ash, Wales, she earned an Oxford degree in English and gleaned most of her information about science "from reading books." Two men in particular inspired her. The first was Amateur Ethologist Robert Ardrey, the failed but imaginative playwright whose views she now rejects. The second was Oxford Zoologist Sir Alister Hardy, an authority on plankton who thought up a nonsexist version of aquatic evolution about a dozen years...
Though he looks like a Beatle with his shaggy hair and steel-rimmed glasses. Harvey Croze, 28, is concerned only with the music of the forest. The Oxford-trained zoologist has spent the past three years listening to and looking at elephants in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. He explains his passion for pachyderms: "The elephant is second only to man as a modifier of ecology. He has been around for 15 million years and is the biggest land mammal, but we hardly know anything about...
THEY LAUGHED when I bought a recording of humpback whales' songs. I laughed when I played it. At first I thought trucks were screeching their brakes outside, but then I saw that the needle was on the record. They told me it would be an emotional experience-the zoologist who recorded the songs said he'd seen people who listened to them for the first time actually cry because they were so moved. I laughed-I'd been rooked on a Coop $2.99 special...
...your parents while sipping after-dinner brandy-unless they're part of the new breed of over-30 freaks. But as a background to whatever you're doing or any mental trauma you're going through, whales are magnificent companions. There they are, singing to one another and a zoologist's hydrophones, telling you things are really fine under water, if not above...
Long years of observation in Africa (summarized in her 1967 book My Friends: The Wild Chimpanzees) have convinced Zoologist Goodall that the chimps' treatment of their young produces well-balanced adults. In raising infants, for example, chimps practice discipline by distraction, a technique that worked very well with Grub; instead of punishing him when he was troublesome, his mother amused him by giving him her undivided attention. While human beings and hyenas often let their unhappy offspring scream interminably, Jane notes, "chimps keep their babies happy by cuddling them whenever they want it. I preferred the chimp...