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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until last week were ornithologists particularly conscious of a truly extraordinary feature of stork ethics that is familiar folklore among European peasants. Storks enforce their code of sex morality by vigilant communal action. Ornithologist Annie France-Harar arrived in Berlin from a stork-studying trip to Greece and described the actual execution of a stork adulteress by 50 of her incensed neighbors. They met in the air over her nest, where she sat trembling with full knowledge of her sin and the penalty. Down they swooped upon her, their plunging, hacking bills soon rending her wicked body to bits. Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Storks, Whales | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

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