Word: forefeet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stanford University. On the first morning of the college year after "Emeritus" was added to his former title, Professor Shafer, feeling lonely and at loose ends, wandered into his beehouse. There he began to watch a mud-dauber wasp as she buzzed purposefully to the window sill, stretched her forefeet out like a kitten, and took a sun bath. She seemed to know exactly what she was about. In a matter of minutes Shafer's admiration was aroused and he found a new and absorbing interest in life. That...
...Once Ellsworth saw an old male porcupine who was shuffling around, "emotionally upset." Suddenly he hunched up his back, drew his forefeet close to his body, stood on his hind legs and thumped his feet, clicking his teeth in fast tempo like castanets...
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