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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...
...Physiologist Knut Schmidt-Nielsen of Duke University and Israeli Zoologist Amiram Shkolnik have explained another dromedary ploy: its ability to exhale far less water than even other desert animals. For 16 days the scientists kept two camels standing in peak temperatures of 40° C (104° F) without water at an Israeli kibbutz near the Dead Sea. After about ten days the camels' nightly exhalations became dryer, showing that they were saving water...
...psychiatrist whips the zoologist Governor of Washington...
...colleague recounts a dinner party Allison attended last spring. "At base, Graham is a man of passion. I asked him about the campaign. But he had been introduced to a zoologist, and they immediately launched into an animated discussion about racoons, a few of which apparently frequent the Allison's backyard. They talked for an hour about racoons. Once he got going on a subject he clearly enjoyed, he could not be disengaged...