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Last week in Cleveland he reported startling results. On the theory that insufficient nerve power prevented the adult frog from growing new legs, Dr. Singer had cut the big sciatic nerves out of the hind legs of 21 amputee frogs, folded them back under the skin, and connected them to the stumps of the frogs' amputated front legs. In 20 of the frogs a new foreleg began to grow within three weeks. They were not very good legs. Nevertheless, they were legs...
Among the most spectacular was the fighting pose of the courbette. Without apparent urging from its rider, the performing Lipizzan reared high on its hind legs, executed a series of forward jumps while pawing furiously, almost like a boxer, with its forelegs. Such a maneuver, Colonel Podhajsky explains, was naturally in high favor among medieval cavalrymen when ever they found themselves hemmed in by foot soldiers...
...went inside, carefully locked the door, and advanced on Sultan. He stabbed the lion in the side with the pitchfork. The big cat winced and spun. Without a second's pause Muller smashed him between the ears with the pipe. The lion staggered, sat back on his hind legs...
...will be 72 July 29), liked to squat motionless as a stump in the forest or sit for hours on the limb of a tree. For long-range work he used giant binoculars mounted on a tripod; with these he could make out the scent gland of the hind leg of a butterfly a quarter of a mile away. "I often wondered," he says, in a sentence of purest Beebe, "what the soaring vultures, looking down, made of this strange creature with great tubular eyes and five legs...
...troubles really started when he got on his hind legs. So says Russian Biologist S. D. Antipin, until last week head of the department of general biology at the Kishinev Medical Institute...