Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meringur, near the South Australian border, Farmer Charles Mangan reported the overnight disappearance of a haystack worth $600. An old Mallee pioneer, after placing his false teeth carefully by his bedside, awoke to find them on the floor of another room, mauled by the mice...
...scared. Victoria's government urged Mallee farmers to an all-out campaign with cyanogen and strychnine. At Ouyen, Mrs. Bert Holland planned a more direct appeal through prayer. An hour before church time she went to her wardrobe to get her Sunday clothes. Mrs. Holland found that the mice of Mallee had eaten them...
...psychological traits inherited? Dr. Calvin S. Hall, of Western Reserve University, believes that some are. In the current Journal of Heredity, he reports experiments to prove his point. His subjects: mice. The trait chosen for study: "audiogenic seizures," i.e., dying in convulsions when scared by a sudden noise...
...Hall selected two strains of adolescent (35 days old) male mice. One strain was black, the other "dilute brown." Both had been inbred by brother-&-sister matings for many generations, thus making sure that the strains would differ widely in hereditary characteristics, while individual mice within each strain would be almost alike genetically...
...apparatus was simple: a galvanized iron washtub with a strong light above it, and a loud electric bell hung inside its rim. Dr. Hall put his mice in the tub in small groups, and watched them for two minutes. The brown mice were slightly more nervous than the black, but also bolder: they ventured more frequently into the middle...