Word: zoologists
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Smaller plastic items are frequently mistaken for prey by turtles and birds, often with fatal results. Leatherback turtles, which feast on jellyfish, are particularly attracted to plastic bags. Says University of Florida Zoologist Archie Carr, an authority on sea turtles: "Any kind of film or semitranslucent material appears to look like jellyfish to them." Trouble is, the bags--or other plastic items like golf tees--can form a lethal plug in the turtle's digestive tract...
What do birds do, and why do they do it? Not all the answers can be found in Bird Behavior (Knopf; 224 pages; $18.95), but that is because the subjects are so colorfully diverse. Zoologist Robert Burton writes informatively on the breeding, flying, feeding and migrating habits of some of the world's 8,600- plus avian species. His introduction is inarguable: "Birds are, perhaps, the most popular group of animals and they give pleasure to thousands of people around the world." Nearly 600 photographs brilliantly feather the text. Birds are observed blushing, using tools and eating everything from insects...
...Jews are not even Jews, he fails also as a writer." Science Writer Martin Gardner, reviewing The Roots of Coincidence (1972), taxed the author with ignoring research that contradicts the claims of parapsychologists. Even Koestler's monumental and erudite The Act of Creation (1964) caused the eminent zoologist Sir Peter Medawar to grumble that Koestler had "no real grasp of how scientists go about their work." Malcolm Muggeridge dismissed the author as "all antennae and no head...
Attenborough, 55, is an ideal guide through the millenniums. An amateur zoologist from childhood, he helped edit books on natural history before joining the BBC in 1952. When the host of a natural history series called Zoo Quest died in 1956, he was the logical replacement...
...sheep killers. To work properly, guarding dogs must be introduced to sheep as pups so that by maturity they are totally at ease with the flock-and vice versa. When a predator approaches, the sheep tend to converge behind the dog. "They recognize him as a security blanket," says Zoologist Jack McGrew of Colorado State University, where Komondors have been tested for three years. Ewes in labor sometimes seek out the protection of the dog. Usually this trust is more than reciprocated. Dogs have been known to lick the newborn lambs and even cuddle them through the night to protect...