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...beyond the limit of human hearing, the high-pitched hunting cry of the bat makes the dark dangerous for night-flying insects. Bat chirps bounce off their tiny bodies like sonar pulses, giving their position away to the swooping enemy. Yet despite the bat's delicate detection equipment, many an insect escapes-and scientists have long wondered why. In the current issue of the American Scientist, Biologists Kenneth Roeder and Asher E. Treat explain how they pried into the defensive secrets of the noctuid moth, an insect that has demonstrated singular evasive skill...
...name coined by Movie Director Federico Fellini for a freelance photographer in La Dolce Vita, his gamy study of Roman, cafe society. "Paparazzo," says Fellini, "suggests to me a buzzing insect, hovering, darting, stinging...
Irregular Cow. Like the artists of Japan, he was fascinated with detail-every petal on the flower, every insect in the grass. He painted cows endlessly (he was born in the Year of the Cow), gave them such childlike titles as The Calf Doesn't Want to Go. "The horse is a splendid animal, but the cow is irregular. You can make more out of it," he said. In an early self-portrait of himself as a golfer, he made himself look like a Japanese war lord, his mashie like a samurai sword...
...WONDERS of LIFE on EARTH, by the Editors of LIFE and Lincoln Barnett 300 pp.; $12.50), is an ambitious panorama of evolution. In hundreds of startling photographs and drawings, supported by a sound text, the history of bird fish, plant, insect and animal life is made exceptionally clear...
...Insect chemical detectors (sense of smell) are amazingly good too. Among the best are those of male moths that can smell a female of their own species a long distance away, apparently detecting a single molecule of a specific chemical. Human chemists cannot do this, even with the most subtle laboratory apparatus...