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...months, and eat no food during that time, since their stores of fat are ample. For a long time little was known about the body temperature of hibernating bears--and for obvious reasons. But recently R. J. Hock has liad the curiosity and the courage to crawl with rectal thermometers into the dens of several hibernating black bears...
Hurrah for Mary Bunting! What a joy to find an educated woman who advocates no such radical goals as women in politics or big business careers but motherhood with some objective beyond diapers and rectal thermometers. Where do young mothers with fresh ideas and a desire to do something challenging go to register...
Curiosity overwhelms this subscriber. Please, what is the rectal temperature of one hibernating bear, as determined by the courageous Dr. Denny Constantine? ROBERT M. PALMER Honolulu
...Denny Constantine, 36, a lifelong student of bats, and a crew of hardy assistants to the ugly and dangerous job of checking further. Researcher Constantine is not easily daunted. During field work in Alaska six years ago, he crawled into a den of hibernating bears and took the rectal temperature of the biggest one while pacifying the restive animal with lumps of sugar. But for his new job he needed more equanimity than ever. Bat caves are chambers of horror. Their floors are deep in stinking guano and littered with the skulls and bones of long-dead bats. Over this...
First "clothes" applied were four electrocardiograph sensors glued to his chest. Then came a respirometer (to measure breathing) taped to his neck and a rectal thermometer to measure deep body temperature. Wires from all these instruments were gathered at a metal plug that would be fitted later into the space suit. After all wires and instruments were checked, Shepard donned long underwear with built-in spongy pads to aid air circulation. Then he was helped into his 30-lb. space suit made of aluminized nylon outside and rubberized nylon inside. It was a tight squeeze. Before all Zippers, straps...