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...Distressed Dialect. To the rescue came "The Birdman of The Hague," Zoologist Johann D. F. Hardenberg of the Ministry of Agriculture's fauna department. Called in by the Air Force and Amsterdam's airport, Hardenberg's first move was to import an American invention, a loudspeaker playing the tape-recorded distress calls of American herring gulls. It was an imaginative effort, but it did not work. Dutch herring gulls apparently speak a dialect all their own and are not alarmed by the screams of their American cousins. When Dr. Hardenberg recorded distressed Dutch gulls and a Jeep...
...force bases will use this system, playing the distress calls of sparrows, peewits, whatever bird is causing trouble. Nearly all birds, says Hardenberg, are frightened away by their own distress calls. Only ducks don't seem to care, and magpies are actually attracted to the loudspeakers...
Frightening Racket. Commercial airports do not use the full Hardenberg system. When birds get thick along a runway, a Jeep broadcasting the appropriate distress calls drives out to clear the way so the jetliners can take off safely. There are no permanent loudspeakers to make a racket that scares away nervous passengers as well as birds...
Chickens make screams of distress; they have battle cries and calls for privacy. Hens lead their chicks to food with a gentle "Tuck-tuck-tuck," and roosters entice pretty pullets with soft cooing. "Chicken behavior is not too different from human behavior," says Dr. Baeumer fondly. "We, too, compete for women, food and the best nesting places. When we consider the chickens' richly organized instinctive life, their memory and their capabilities, we must admit it is stupid to talk about 'the stupid...
...actually be bought at retail for less than $10; though the ads make the blenders out to be a high-quality product, they are inferior models retailing for $12. By taking on names and trappings that made them sound like legitimate liquidators (who often do sell at distress prices), a new breed of mail order firm has made pseudo liquidating one of the nation's most successful selling rackets, condemned by the Federal Trade Commission as "the hottest method of merchandising" around...