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...distance between daily feeding periods. Modern airliners can. This year Von Frisch's associates, Dr. Max Renner and Dr. Werner Loher, prepared for the great experiment. With the help of Dr. Theodore C. Schneirla of New York's American Museum of Natural History (Dr. Schneirla is an ant man, but he doubles in bees), they built two identical sunless bee-testing rooms: one in Paris, one in New York. Then they trained a hive of bees in Paris to feed from 8:15 to 10:15 p.m. Paris time...
Among Shapley's interests are his ant theories--"I've picked the creatures off stone walls in dozens of counties"--and his debunking of pseudo-science. At a faculty gathering, for example, a fellow professor recalls Shapley's pacing about the lawn with a divining fork, "only to reveal a Princeton instructor's hidden bottle...
...weekday night Princeton is quiet except for an occasional shout through the campus ant the mellow mean of the college jazz band. Most undergraduates spend the evening among the open stacks of Friesians library, which stays open until midnight...
...Some ants are hopeless "alcoholics." Certain species of British ants keep caterpillars of the Lycaena butterfly in their underground nests, by caressing them obtain drops of ant-intoxicating liquid. In their insatiable craving, the ants feed their own offspring and eggs to the caterpillars: nevertheless, when the caterpillars mature into butterflies, the ants peaceably let them escape to the outside world...
...Africa's blind, carnivorous driver ants move in endless, well-ordered columns flanked by their larger "officers," who lead and direct the march. Scouts in the van investigate likely targets and lead an "ant-sea" attack to devour everything living within reach. But for all their ferocity, the drivers die in direct sunlight. Forced to cross bare ground on a bright day, they quickly throw up earth to form a covered archway as protection, and march...