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...forest is, like the stadium, located squarely in the Bronx. Recently built into the southwest corner of the sprawling Bronx Zoo, the 6.5-acre range is a magnificent exercise in environmental illusion. The leaves the gorillas are munching are willow, native to the U.S.; the strangler fig is really catalpa, a local species; the understory plant is butterbur, native to Japan; the fallen tree is made out of metal, mesh and layers of epoxy; and a few hundred yards from the recorded sounds of hornbills and monkeys, Latin music blares from a picnic on a sweltering June afternoon...
Other aspects of Bower's research combine evolutionary, ecological and behavioral problems. "I'm going to start playing around this summer with a moth species that feeds on catalpa trees which contain large amounts of iridoid glycosoids," she says. The larvae of this species are gregarious and warningly colored but the adults are drab and cryptic. This type of life history suggests that the larvae are unpalatable but as they molt and become adults they are no longer unpalatable. "I don't exactly know what's going on with these guys, but I'm really psyched--it's really unusual...
...relished good wine, played their fiddles with delight if uneven skill, spent the gentle evenings talking about literature, philosophy and the new findings in medicine and science. They examined the delicacy of the bloom in more than a hundred small gardens and inhaled the subtle scents of the catalpa trees ("Almost everything grows that is put into the ground," marveled a Swiss visitor in 1701). They worked and studied prodigiously for their beliefs, a diligence that became the young nation's defining trait. Lawyer George Wythe, whose house on the green is a visual joy, started a student...
...Heard, in the Senate Commerce Committee, from the director of a New York State cancer-research hospital, Dr. George E. Moore, that his institute is experimenting with "nontobacco cigarettes made of lettuce, cabbage, catalpa [a tree leaf], papaya and paper...
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