Word: schneirla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bees were put in a closed hive, loaded on a T.W.A. airliner and flown to New York. They completed their trans-ocean journey between feeding periods and were placed in the room that Dr. Schneirla had prepared for them...
...once difficult because ocean-going ships cannot move fast enough to carry bees a sufficient distance between daily feeding periods. Modern airliners can. This year Von Frisch's associates, Dr. Max Renner and Dr. Werner Loher, prepared for the great experiment. With the help of Dr. Theodore C. Schneirla of New York's American Museum of Natural History (Dr. Schneirla is an ant man, but he doubles in bees), they built two identical sunless bee-testing rooms: one in Paris, one in New York. Then they trained a hive of bees in Paris to feed from...