Word: tinbergen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years I have admired you from afar and have loved your little old magazine like a brother. But now I hate you, I hate you. My reason? Your report of the studies of one Professor N. Tinbergen (a likely name!) in re the procreative functions of sticklebacks [TIME...
...Professor Tinbergen concludes that breeding sticklebacks do not see their mates as fish of the other sex. The male sees only an egg-distended shape; later he smells fresh eggs. The female sees a flash of red belly; later she feels a prodding. They sense little more of each other...
...Professor Tinbergen-and upon you, too, TIME ! Do you not know that there are still extant a few of us anthropomorphic-minded souls who still clasp Uncle Remus and Ernest Thompson Seton to our bosoms? We prefer to believe, since birds do it and bees do it, that they (and the sticklebacks) feel romantic about what Professor Tinbergen insists is merely another dismal reflex...
...females, too, were susceptible. They followed a red dummy as if it were a male. When a female was in the nest, Professor Tinbergen gently poked her abdomen with the tip of a glass rod. She laid her eggs willingly...
Professor Tinbergen concludes that breeding sticklebacks do not see their mates as fish of the other sex. The male sees only an egg-distended shape; later he smells fresh eggs. The female sees a flash of red belly; later she feels a prodding. They sense little more of each other...