And yet, there is much to learn about flies from this book. He illustrates an approach to the study of animal behavior that is based upon analysis of underlying mechanisms. In so doing, he traces the development of ideas and methods employed in experimental physiology. With a clarity and wit rarely found in scientific prose, the author tells the story of all the research that has been carried out with the blowfly. The fly, then, is incidental concepts and experimental techniques for evaluating them are the main subject. This book is an exploration of what we mean when we say that an animal is "hungry" it analyzes the ethological concepts of motivation and drive as tested in extensive and elegant experiments on blowflies. It has been more thoroughly studied in the black blowfly than virtually any other creature except, possibly, man and the white rat.
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