Word: instinctiveness
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...drag queen's propensities. Serve in a Toronto beauty salon. Now take one long-haired schizo on the lam from the local loony bin, throw in a few touches of outward normalcy--a good eye for fashionable apparel, decidedly hetero leanings, and a good old-fashioned motherly instinct--and dash with an urge to write whacked-out tales for her beloved fellow "crazies" in a bulky ledger. Mix the two together and what do you get? Creme de la Outrageous!, of course...
...water tests are a skillful blend of obedience training and instinct gauging. The first simply requires the dog to go into the water and return to shore on command from a handler. "It looks so easy," said Breeder-Handler Cardel Verbruggen, "but it's actually an acid test. The dog has to be willing to swim to go in, and not every dog-even some Newfs, unfortunately-is eager for the water. And once he's in, he can't just swim around for the fun of it and still be a rescue...
...fact, sociobiologists believe, conflict?both in the family and with outsiders?is the essence of life. But they do not think that man is at the mercy of an irresistible aggressive instinct, as Lorenz (On Aggression) and Author Robert Ardrey (The Territorial Imperative) insisted in their popular books more than a decade ago. For sociobiologists the trick in becoming an evolutionary winner is to hit just the right level of aggression. Too little, and the organism may be muscled out by competitors. Too much, and it may die in battle without reproducing, or use up time and energy in fighting...
Despite his strength and bat speed, Carew completely avoids the modern hitter's greatest weakness: the instinct to pull the pitch on the shortest line to the nearest fence. The lust for the long ball and the glory of homers has contributed as much to the decline in high-average hitters in the post-World War II era as the oft-cited rise of relief pitching. Trying to cream a fastball low and away is a sure way to strike...
...withdrawal. A piercing cry invariably and understandably follows. The pregnancy cycle is brisk in tempo. A litter conceived in February is born in April and reared by July, with the mother all ready for another go. It will surprise some readers to find that cats do not kill by instinct and initially do not know that rodents and birds are tasty fare. Hunting is learned behavior. When a cat wanders in with an animal in its mouth, and begins batting it around the living room floor, it is not asking for approval. The cat is simply treating the human family...