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1 DETROIT KRKE TRESS Wednesday, Junp 4, '69 Man, Animal Dislike Closeness ADVERTISEMENT asic Fear Causes Urban Troubles research, involving lambs that identify with dogs, monkeys that grow to love dolls, and even a European jackdaw that decided naturalist Konrad Lorcnz was a relative and tried to feed him worms. If an animal or, presumably, man -is caught at the right time, its loyalties can be letic people, the determination man or animal makes about whom he will associate with obviously has a great deal to do merely with his previous exposure. Coupled with those lingering territorial urges, that finally is what is going on when conversation stops at the elevator door. By Gary Blonston a. l'o VMlS DECORATING ON A BUDGET? O.

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In fact, white rats have been taught to change their tastes in classical music through constant exposure. The researchers found that the rats were generally more receptive to Mozart than to the ex-perim a 1 i composer Schoenberg, judging by their responses after being trained to flick switches calling up either Mozart or Schoenberg recordings. But after a period of constant exposure to Schoenberg's weird music, the rats changed their tastes significantly. They came to like Schoenberg, and flicked his switch more often. Whether the question is Schoenberg music, the dog a lamb grew up with, white people, well-read people or ath tagu have argued fiercely in the other direction, saying man is essentially good, and it is just an Imperfect society that has fouled him up.

No one has settled the argument yet, but strict evolutionists thank that man's territorial defenses might be fairly recent developments. None of the great apes, supposedly our closest animal relatives, defends territory. But there are records of primitive man naming his tribe with the local word for "man," implicitly suggesting that everyone outside was something else. As the cities have burgeoned, the new human question of harmful overpopulation has emerged. There have been very few rural riots, but there ha ve been urban ones.

And the suburbanite grass fetish has become a modern cliche. "Where civilized life shrinks the peripheral sphere (the. space occupied by animals on the fringes of their group), the human male still tends a strip of lawn around his house," Kummer says. That is pure territoriality, perhaps more refined than anything the animal kingdom has yet come up with. And when that kind of tenacious territoriality is linked to a group like a bee colony, a teen-age gang, a neighborhood clique or a whole communitythe results can be profound and ominous.

For identification with others can radically change the way man or animal views his world. CASES of animals attaching themselves to others not their kind are legion in behavioral AP Photo There really isn't anything that takes the worry out of being close. Conversation stops it the elevator door, at the edge of the backyard "privacy fence," at the approach of someone who stands higher or lower or farther away. Even deodorants like the one that spurred that slogan about fretting over closeness are devices to keep people from dealing with each other too intimately. You use Brand X.

Don't you wish everyone did? IT WOULD seem we are being crowded into defensive-ness by urban living, but wha.t we are really dealing with is a potent remnant of the way it used to be when life hung on a more a 1 thread. Scientists call that reaction territoriality, the need for man and many other animals to put some space between themselves and everyone else. Originally spurred to exclu-oiveness by basic needs for food and personal safety, mankind's defense of territory and Individual identity has assumed intricate cultural dimensions. It helps make war, and it helps make loneliness. "We share the major animal solutions to spacing problems," says Hans Kummer of Tulane University's center for primate research.

"Nations defend territories. Individuals may give an angry look to intruders on their premises. "Approaching the center of another person's private area reduces our self-confidence. An executive therefore meets an esteemed visitor at the door of his office, but he awaits at his desk a subordinate whom he wishes to re We Repair Most Makes Watches Clocks practical desk for studying. For shelving you could alternate plywood boards and stacked bricks and cover the plywood in the same wood-grained paper as the desk.

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Wilson writes: "Well-fed honeybee colonies are very tolerant of intruding workers from nearby hives, letting them penetrate the nest and even take supplies without opposition. "But when the same colonies are allowed to go without food for several days, they attack every intruder in the nest area." The same thing Is true when ponderous hippopotami face overpopulation. Normally tolerant hippos fight to the death in cataclysmic African river battles. RESEARCHER J. B.

Calhoun and others have Jammed white rats in laboratory overpopulation experiments and have found that many are inclined to stop breeding, become homosexual, engage in cannibalism or kill the young that are unlucky enough to be born in that environment. Abnormally as those rats behave, Wilson writes, their tortured attempts to cope have "close parallels in certain of the more dreadful aspects of human behavior. "There are some clear similarities, for example, between the social life of Calhoun's rats and that of people in concentration and prisoner-of-war camps." Popular writers have made much of man's supposed Innate territorial aggressiveness, to the point of dooms Opening Soon Oakland Mall 15414 W. 7 Mil at Greenfield 342-7270 I Fest Point Cadets dot Honors The cadets who won top honors at the U.S. Military Academy were congratulated by Maj.

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