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Returning from his first hike in the forest, MacKinnon encountered zoologist Do Tuoc, who had spent the day talking with hunters in the nearby village of Kim Quang about wild goats in the region. MacKinnon felt a flash of excitement when Do Tuoc mentioned coming across skulls with long, curved horns mounted proudly on posts in hunters' houses. "You'd better show me," said MacKinnon, for he knew of no goats of that description in Southeast Asia...
Wilson, 64, won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for his book On Human Nature, which explored the role of biology in socialization. He also shared the 1991 Pulitzer for the work The Ants with Bert Holldobler, a former Harvard zoologist...
...horn, just as no silk spun by spiders is likely be woven into designer clothes. For starters, it would take 500 to 1,000 spiders to spin out enough silk for one necktie. "And you probably wouldn't want to wear a necktie made of spider silk anyway," laughs zoologist John Gosline of the University of British Columbia. Reason: when wet, spider silk contracts 50%, a property that, in a necktie at least, might prove decidedly unpleasant on damp days. Armed with the tools of molecular biology, however, scientists can learn how spiders construct their silk and then apply those...
...course of the evening, Adam assumed the voice of an Australian zoologist, a gruff machine tank and a sarcastic robot named Marvin...
...wild, give rise to as many as 16 quadrillion descendants in five years. Armed with 80,000 rasping teeth and weighing up to a pound, each of these offspring can wade through an entire head of lettuce at one sitting. "It eats anything," says University of Michigan zoologist J.B. Burch. House paint. Dead Rats. Beer. Describing an infestation in Ceylon early in this century, a British explorer wrote, "The huge snails were to be seen -- literally in millions -- crawling over the ground, climbing up walls, fences, and poles." The few Giants that have been captured by the feds thus...