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Mopping up after the invaders of animal privacy have come the generalists. They include Playwright Robert Ardrey, whose The Territorial Imperative was rashly naive, and Zoologist Desmond Morris, whose The Naked Ape was at least brashly amusing. Now publishers are packaging curiosities and precursors. Despite considerable charm and insight, The Soul of the Ape is one such...
Durrell dutifully and deftly relates such episodes, customarily avoiding the smug coziness that tends to afflict family anecdotage as a genre. But the boy who grew into a topflight zoologist was always slightly more interested in the doings of four-legged animals than two. At picnics, he was absorbed, not annoyed, by flies and ants. His endless hours of watching in the fields and at the edge of the sea were rewarded by such wonders as the sight of two snails mating. Sidling up side-to-side, each fired out a small white dart on a slender rope that thunked...
WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Zoologist Henry Del Guidice and the crew of his schooner track a giant sea turtle across 1,500 miles of open sea to study its navigational ability in "Solomon, the Sea Turtle...
...LITTLE WORLD OF ROMAN VISHNIAK (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Considered one of the foremost photographers of microscopic life, the 70-year-old biologist and zoologist developed a method called "colorization." With this unique process, he transforms scientific subjects into an art show while examining the complex life of microorganisms. Dr. Vishniak's life and work are put under the TV microscope in this color special...
Nothing frustrates zoo curators quite so much as trying to mate stubbornly uncooperative animals. Though many wild beasts are compliant enough about breeding behind bars, others seem to lose their reproductive urge as soon as they lose their freedom. But their sexual indifference to their own kind, Zurich Zoologist Heini Hediger told a symposium on animal behavior in San Francisco last week, may obscure a simple fact: they sometimes learn to prefer their keepers to their natural mates...