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Article: The sex life of quail. (Senator William Proxmire's latest Golden Fleece Award)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 26, 1988
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EACH month Senator William Proxmire gives a "golden fleece" award to the government agency that has been most ingeniously wasteful of the taxpayer's money. His choice this month was a pair of research-funding agencies that between them found $107,000 for scientists to spend on studying the sex life of quail. The researchers who were given the grant wished to study "sexual looking, classical conditioning of sexual arousal and improvement in copulatory performance with practice" in Japanese quail. The reason Japanese quail were used is that they belong to the variety of quail that is most commonly kept in captivity. In vain did the agencies-the National Science Foundation ...
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