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A Listen and Learn Series: The Animals' World: 3: Insects and Spiders

on Network Three

Seven programmes in which professional and amateur zoologists talk about the behaviour of animals and the ways in which it can be studied.
A.D. Blest, of University College, London, talks about the instinctive patterns of web-building in spiders
Peter Haskell, of the Anti-Locust Research Centre, explains how grasshoppers communicate, with recorded illustrations of some of their 'songs'.
Colin Butler, of Rothamsted Experimental Station, gives examples of instinctive behaviour and of learning in the activities of a honey-bee colony.
Introduced by John Carthy of Queen Mary College, London.
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Contributors

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Peter Haskell
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Colin Butler
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Rothamsted Experi
Introduced By:
John Carthy

Network Three

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