Who's watching whom?I wonder if the researchers in "Underage Spiders: Males show unexpected interest in young mates" (SN: 8/26/06, p. 133) have made any observations of the prevalence of males mating with juvenile females when mature females are present in the environment. CAROLYN
Carolyn is a female name in English speaking countries, originally an alteration of the more ancient name Caroline. CRAMOY, LAKE PLACID Lake Placid, village (1990 pop. 2,485), Essex co., NE N.Y.; settled 1850, inc. 1900. In the Adirondack Mts. at an altitude of 1,800 ft (549 m), the village surrounds Mirror Lake. It is a famous resort and sports center. , N.Y. Maydianne Andrade
Originally, the name Andrade (sometimes Andrada of the University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, at Scarborough says that no information on that is available yet. She and her team didn't know about juvenile-spider mating when they did earlier field research that might have offered insight.--S. MILIUS |
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