European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6. The stars and stripes monday april 20.1987 a frail Fly my displays fancy footwork with Wing flip to drive array i predatory jumping spider. Fruit flies use fancy footwork in mimicry of predator spiders Washington a some spiders dislike other spiders As much As they like files and some of the lies have worked out a Way to use this to their advantage scientists report with nips of their unusual wings and some fancy footwork several species of fruit Flics can do a Para Able impersonation of a spider Good enough Inmany cases to keep them from being eaten by the real on the Guise of their wont enemy is a Type of predator mimicry rarely seen in the camouflage filled world of nature researcher said Friday. Separate research groups reported tint their experiments prove earlier speculation that tech rigid fruit flies can masquerade As jumping spiders to avoid capture by the Previlor. The flies have a banding Patten on their slut of spider legs atom with false Eye roots pm the end of the Abdomen when threatened the Flics extend us wings and do a Side to Side dance similar in appearance to the gait of a jump ing spider the scientists found. The scientists in reports published in the april17 Issue of the journal science said there Are Many examples of predators mimicking prey to Aid i capture. Also some animals copy color Partemi to avoid detection and some adopt the More aggressive appearance of other animals. However the Case in which prey mimic their predators to avoid pre Dilion is rarely reported wrote Monica Mather and Bernard Roitburg of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby British co Lumbia in one of the reports. Erick Greene of Princeton University Lead re searcher in the other group said the spiders have special detectors in their eyes that Only recognize patterns like leg waving. These spiders Are very territorial and Don t Likely Sec other spiders Greene said in a Telephone interview. When they Sec the movement and leg like display on the Fly s wings they think it s another , working with Larry Orsak of the univer sity of Georgia and Douglas Whitman of a department insect Laboratory in Tifton a also found that the defense wot used for jump ing spiders Only other spiders were not deterred by this and neither were the praying tamises or Small lizards we tested Greene continued they ate the and Roitberg tested Snow Beny flies found in Vancouver against their major enemy the Zebra spider. Spiders stalked their prey in � Plexidas Arena and researchers recorded whether the fled from target insects or pounced. The spiders pounced on houseflies with clearings 60 percent of the time but Only attacked the displaying Snow flies on 20 percent of the and his colleagues did similar experiments with fruit flies captured in new used microsurgery to transplant the wings of houseflies onto some frail flies and vice spiders attacked the Normal fruit flies less often than All others but aggressively pounced on houseflies houseflies with striped wings and fruit Flics with Clear wings the researchers found. Stateside flagpole clinging Bunny returns to porch Perch Farmingdale , Apt a stolen 8-fool-Talleaster Bunny a i returned to Fis location saturday on the porch of a House after it was spotted hanging froma school flagpole. According to its owner Lydia Connolly a Motorist passing by the Weldon e. Howalt Junior High in farm Modale saw the stuffed Bunny and notified the school custodian. The custodian having heard of the stolen beige ind White Rabbit from to reports Cut it Down and locked it away in a Sel Connolly said. School clout until the family retrieved it. The Rabbit is Back Home lied to the column on our porch again but with heavier she said it had been stolen from the porch thursday morning. During the rest of the year the Bunny resides inthe bedrooms of the Connolly boys Erik 4, and Kurt 8, least terns returning to miss nesting area Gulfport miss. A have begun returning to the Mississippi Gulf coast and Audubon society officials have erected signs to protect one of the Bird s prime Spring nesting areas. The nesting area is a mile Long stretch of Gulf port Beach in front of the . Naval retirement Home. The Birds Are the smallest member of the Ter family hence their name least Tern. They return to the coast each april from Central and sout America to build nests and Breed. By August Tern parents and their offspring begin to journey Sou animal theft May cause project delay Dallas a a goal used in cancer experiments has been stolen and officials fear the theft could cause a 10-month setback for the research project the one eared Black and while goal was one of six being boarded at the Mcdonald animal clinic. A woman at the clinic told police she saw three men Lake the animal Load it in a pickup1 track and drive away. We would like to have 1 in Goat Back said Hanne Klein a spokeswoman for the Wacky institutes of molecular Medicine in Dallai. Whit behave lost Are months and months of valuable re search Lime and thousands of dollars of research officials initially feared the Goat would be fatal if eaten because it might be riddled with cancer cell. However authorities later Learned the Goat had been injected Only with proteins and antibodies making it non lethal. A we Cas bakkers pay bonuses horrendous9 Charlotte . A new pal chairman Jerry Falwell said saturday the Large salaries and bonuses paid to Jim and Tammy Router and other lop pal executives were horrendous and could Hurt contributions to the television ministry in the future. Salary bonuses and other compensation figures re ported by the Char toll observer on saturday appear 10 be essentially Correct Falwell said in a Telephone interview with the newspaper published in sunday editions. The observer reported that Jim Batter who Servidas pal chairman and president before resigning a month ago and his wife received nearly si.6 million in salary and bonuses lost War and $640.000 in salary and bonuses Over the Paul three months. I personally think thai the comp citation is Horren-dous.1 Falwell said. I Don t think any reasonable per son could believe these salaries Are acceptable. In my opinion no ministry in America pays pastors and staffs at this level. In Ray opinion this information could Hurt contributions to pal substantially. Clearly someone bus made some reckless decisions in Bakker 47, stepped Down As pal president and chairman after acknowledging a 1980 extramarital sex Ual encounter and a subsequent agreement to make payments later reported to be $265,000 to quiet complaints from Jessica Hahn the woman involved. Shortly before that mrs. Bakker announced she was undergoing treatment for drug dependency. Richard Dortch Bakker s top Deputy and now pal s president received s350,000 last year the observer reported. Bakker s personal aide and executives Ccreary received 1360,000 and 1160,000, respectively in 1986, according to a source with Access to ministry records. In each Case about half the payments or More were in the form of bonuses. Falwell confirmed saturday thai he had ordered Al bonuses and other pal payments besides regular Sala Ries be hailed. Falwell has said pal will continue Topay the bakkers. Although no figure has been revealed. The $640,000 the bakkers received Between january and March included bonuses of about $470.000 and salaries of about $120,000, the newspaper said. In addition Bakker received a loan of is , the Bak kers have been in seclusion and off the air except for afew Days in january. Thai s been very shocking to me. There seems to have been an acceleration of Bonus payments these first three months of his year almost in anticipation of some dramatic happening fall cd said. I Hope that is not Falwell said his salary from his Lynchburg is 1100,000 a year. He said he is declining to be paid for his work at pal. Pal with about 2,000 employees reported $129million in revenues last year. Falwell said salaries should be the ton priority at the april 28 meeting of pal s new Board named when Falwell took Over pal at Batter s request. Falwell revealed thai the pal Board met Friday i Palm Beach. Fla., and got information that the flak Kors received $1.2 million in 19ss. The figure stunned new Board members Falwell said. Figures obtained by the observer indicate tha Dortch As Well As Baker s personal aide David tag Gan. Received bonuses the firs three months of ibis year approaching the level of i hair bonuses for All of 1986. Falwell said members of the new pal Board but no himself will be paid s 18.000 a year
