Word: thorax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amateur entomologist) and Tyler (a spectroscopist) teamed up to test the possibility that female moths send-and the males receive-mating calls in infrared (heat) waves. The researchers first took the temperature of the female night-mating moth with a tiny thermocouple buried in the fur of her thorax. They found that it might be as much as 11° above the temperature of the surroundings. Since all warm objects radiate in the infrared, the conclusion was that a hot-blooded female moth "must literally 'shine' against a background of cool forest objects...