In 2011 Australian researchers Darryl Gwynne and David Rentz were awarded and Ig for discovering that a certain kind of beetle mates with a certain kind of Australian beer bottle. The two researchers with Aussie links this year had no qualms about their study’s abnormality. “We are proud to have been awarded this prize because it means that we have managed to make people (and not only other researchers) both laugh and think … it very much mirrors the way we design and carry out experiments, which involves a lot of laughter and thought” says Emily Baird an assistant professor of functional zoology at Lund University in Sweden. В 2011 году энтомологи Дэррил Гвин и Дэвид Рентц получили "Шнобеля" за свое открытие 30-летней давности. Они выяснили, что определенные виды австралийских жуков пытаются Нажать спариваться с открытыми пивными бутылками, но далеко не любыми. "Привлекательными" им кажутся лишь коричневые бутылки с остатками пены.
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 04:12:31 +0000
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