[at-l] Mice.

[stephensadams@xxxxxxxxxxx (Steve Adams)]

Konrad Lorenz was a physician and early ethologist, at least of the
recognized modern discipline.

Quoting his daughter in an introduction to his "The Natural Science of the
Human Species."  [This book started life as a 750 page manuscript ("The
Russian Manuscript") which he wrote while a prisoner of war in a Russian
concentration camp.]

"Some pages are written on rough Russian notepaper ... while others are
pieces cut to size from paper cement sacks.  The text is written mainly with
diluted ink or potassium permanganate, mostly using steel nibs but
occasionally with birds' quills."

"In the winter of 1944-1945, when his health was at lowest ebb as a result
of a scarlet fever infection contracted after he had been wounded ... he was
living in an unheated building in which drafts made icicles grow
horizontally out of the wall, he tried to tame young rats that tried to warm
themselves against him, but that were repeatedly summoned back by the
mother."

Appreciate your mouse experience.

Steve

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