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...been with sticklebacks, prickly fresh-water fish that make good subjects for "releaser" experiments. The male builds a nest of fine sticks and tries to persuade females to lay their eggs inside it. He wastes no time on nonpregnant females. But when he sees one with a swollen abdomen, her shape acts upon him as a powerful releaser. He rushes into the lists of love, displaying his own releaser: a bright red belly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Not So Smart | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Dissected Love Affair. Professor Tinbergen observed this byplay; then he took it apart. First he proved that the male would attack as a rival a crude dummy fish with a red belly like his own. Professor Tinbergen then made a dummy with a swollen abdomen. This released a chain of mating reactions in the eager male, which tried to entice the dummy into his waiting nest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Not So Smart | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...females, too, were susceptible. They followed a red dummy as if it were a male. When a female was in the nest, Professor Tinbergen gently poked her abdomen with the tip of a glass rod. She laid her eggs willingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Not So Smart | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...patient, he thought her trip to Charleston had been in vain. Blonde Betty Lee Woolridge was an almost classic example of the wreckage caused when a heart is crippled by rheumatic fever. At 21, Betty Lee weighed only 85 pounds; veins in her neck stood out like whipcords; her abdomen was swollen with a fluid by-product of congestive heart failure. Doctors in her home town of Canton, Ohio had told her she had only a year to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hearts & Scalpels | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...back (not eating, not sleeping) and his belly a constant, burning torment. Months after he was back at work, he felt something like a big hole where the scalpel had slit his muscles; and for years he looked with awed distaste at the lumpy, four-inch scar on his abdomen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Better Operation | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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