EARS OF CATERPILLARS
A note appearing in a recent jssuo of the journal "Science" indicates that catorpillars hear sounds audiblo to human cars, according to a reporj road beforo'o the American Society of Zoologists by Dr. D. E. Minnich, of tho University of Minnesota, who outlined experiments demonstrating his point. Drl M,inniish held tuning-forks of several pitches within the range of the middle piano keyboard over a sound box in which wero caterpillars of fourteen different species. When ho struck tho forks the caterpillars indicated that they heard,. either by stopping their movements or by vigorously contracting their muscles.
A commercial tribunal in Paris ■will shortly decide whether the act of falling in love is so foolish as to deserve punishment. The question lias been raised by the fact that an establishment on the coast of Normandy which employs a number of musicians, dancers, and other artists lias inserted' in ils contracts a clause which provides that nobody in its service shall fall ju lovj, __, ~_
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1933, Page 2
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EARS OF CATERPILLARS
Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1933, Page 2
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