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...Bats hunt night-flying moths by echolocation, uttering rapid chirps of ultra sonic sound and flying toward echoes that bounce back from their prey. It is a simple and effective system, but Dr. Roeder proved several years ago that noctuid moths can hear the search sonar of a cruising bat and take evasive action. To save their lives, they fold their wings and dive to the ground or shift suddenly into a zigzag course (TIME, June...
...learn the purpose of such moth clicks, Dunning and Roeder caged the insects in front of a loudspeaker and exposed them to batlike trains of ultrasonic pulses. At once the moths started clicking in what seemed to be an effort to confuse an oncoming bat. To test the effectiveness of the countermeasure, Dunning and Roeder built an electrically operated gun that tosses live meal worms on short trajectories. They trained captive bats to find the meal worms by echolocation, and to pick them skillfully out of the air. Then the entomologists recorded the clicks made by moths and played them...
Roeder and Dunning are not quite sure why the trick works. The moth's sounds may convey the message that the sender is not good to eat, or in some way they may deceive the bat's echo-location system. Whatever the moth clicks do, they are as effective as any man-made radar jammer...
...that "it's not the spread of communism that this country is afraid of," but rather the racial equality in Castro's Cuba. Bedford, a Negro, charged that in America "we're expected to kneel down on our knees to every white racist who comes along with a baseball bat...
...leaving Husky forwards loose in front of its net would result in Northeastern goals. Bloh, Bill Seabury, and Jim Leu scored fairly routinely, but Joe MacGillivray's marker was an eye-opener. In the face of a Husky rush, Welch skated 25 feet in front of his goal to bat aside MacGillivray's length-of-the-rink pass, but missed. The puck slid agonizingly into the open net behind...