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... walk , or jump . Jumping was the least successful response , and the ultimate explanation shows how sympathetic one must be with his experimental animal . The cricket was attached to a stationary holder . He stood on a little cork ball ...
... walk , or jump . Jumping was the least successful response , and the ultimate explanation shows how sympathetic one must be with his experimental animal . The cricket was attached to a stationary holder . He stood on a little cork ball ...
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... walking him as one would walk a dog . As we walked our flies up and down the cor- ridors of the laboratory , people stared and shied away . The fly was only a blur at the end of a thread that stuck out horizontally in apparent defiance ...
... walking him as one would walk a dog . As we walked our flies up and down the cor- ridors of the laboratory , people stared and shied away . The fly was only a blur at the end of a thread that stuck out horizontally in apparent defiance ...
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... walks in a series of short straight lines as though it lived in a cubistic world . As it goes along , it is not only feeling the ground upon which it walks , it is tasting it . Whenever one of its six feet steps into something tasteful ...
... walks in a series of short straight lines as though it lived in a cubistic world . As it goes along , it is not only feeling the ground upon which it walks , it is tasting it . Whenever one of its six feet steps into something tasteful ...
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