Re: FUN

[Glenis Long <glong@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The beetle story you wrote has a different version in "To Know a  
Fly"   by Vincent Gaston Dethier  a great book on how research is  
done.  As an example of bad research  the story involves training an  
flea to jump and then removing the legs. Once all the legs were gone  
the fly could no longer jump.  So it was concluded that the insect  
heard with it legs.  I like it because the although the experiment is  
full of problems, the conclusion may well be true as some insects have  
their hearing organs on the legs.

Glenis Long