Word: lorenzes
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...became bored and romped through his study. She dragged a bronze lamp across the room and heaved it into an aquarium. Then she unlocked a bookcase, removed Volumes 2 and 4 of Strumpel's textbooks of medicine, tore them to shreds and stuffed them in the fish tank. Lorenz returned to find fuses blown, empty book covers on the floor, and his sea anemones tangled in torn paper...
Cackle & Croak. With his affectionate patience, Dr. Lorenz has become familiar with the passions of that monogamous little fish, the cichlid. He knows the wild ecstasies of the Siamese fighting fish and the stickleback. He can spell out the intricate class consciousness of jackdaw society, for he has seen a low-ranking female mate with a high-ranking male and assume his place in the social order...
Often enough, unwary strangers have taken Dr. Lorenz for a fugitive from a psychiatric clinic when they have surprised him cackling and croaking with furious concentration. But he is only practicing his remarkably successful communication with birds...
Wolves & Doves. As a field surgeon in World War II, Dr. Lorenz watched the highest of the vertebrates practice mass mutilations on his own species. Among the lower orders, only such "gentle" animals as doves and hares, he says, are guilty of the same unfeeling cruelty. The wolf, a popular symbol of ferocious wickedness, is psychologically incapable of killing his most hated rival if the rival bares his neck in meek submission...
...points out, is the meaning of the Biblical admonition : " 'And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other.' Not so that your enemy may strike you again do you turn the other cheek . . . but to make him unable to do it." Naturalist Lorenz, drawing a moral, says that the day may come when mankind will be divided into two camps, each with the power of destroying the other. "Shall we then behave like doves or wolves? . . . We may well be apprehensive...