Noah's Ark (1846), a painting by the American folk painter Edward Hicks
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Sunday, September 8, 2013
ACROSTIC, Puzzle by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Edited by Will Shortz
This Sunday’s challenging but rewarding acrostic draws a quotation from Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures by Virginia Morell.
Animal Wise takes us on a dazzling odyssey into the inner world of animals from ants to wolves, and among the pioneering researchers who are leading the way into once-forbidden territory: the animal mind. With thirty years of experience covering the sciences, Morell uses her formidable gifts as a story-teller to transport us to field sites and laboratories around the world, introducing us to animal-cognition scientists and their surprisingly intelligent and sensitive subjects. She explores how this rapidly evolving, controversial field has only recently overturned old notions about why animals behave as they do. She probes the moral and ethical dilemmas of recognizing that even “lesser animals” have cognitive abilities such as memory, feelings, personality, and self-awareness–traits that many in the twentieth century felt were unique to human beings. ~ Book description, Amazon.com
The quotation: HARDLY A WEEK GOES BY THAT DOESN’T SEE A … NEW DISCOVERY ABOUT ANIMAL MINDS: “WHALES HAVE … REGIONAL DIALECTS,” “FISH USE TOOLS,” "SQUIRRELS ADOPT ORPHANS,” “HONEYBEES MAKE PLANS,” “SHEEP DON’T FORGET A FACE,” “RATS FEEL EACH OTHER’S PAIN …”
The author’s name and the title of the work: VIRGINIA MORELL, ANIMAL WISE
The defined words:
A. Rapacious, predatory type, VULTURE
B. Quality of a sloth, IDLENESS
C. Manage not to stagnate in a changing world, READAPT
D. What you can find in a skein, GEESE
E. Characterized by torpor, INACTIVE
F. Refuge for every couple (2 wds.), NOAH’S ARK
G. Prepped for work, as a draft horse (2 wds.), IN HARNESS
H. Series taught by Snuffleupagus or Big Bird, ALPHABET
I. Rhesus monkey or Barbary ape, MACAQUE
J. Tale in which men are turned into swine, ODYSSEY
K. Phylum of invertebrates whose cilia resemble wheels, ROTIFERA
L. Peacock or butterfly markings EYESPOTS
M. Independent operator (2 wds.), LONE WOLF
N. Aesopian portion (2 wds.), LION’S SHARE
O. Honeydew-yielding “cattle” (2 wds.), ANT COWS
P. Olden term for a pasture tender, NEATHERD
Q. In the middle of nowhere, ISOLATED
R. Old-fashioned or conservative sort, MOSSBACK
S. Unhinged hunter of a Physeter macrocephalus, AHAB
T. Pastime that makes kids jumpy, LEAPFROG
U. Completely, without reservation (2 wds.), WHOLE HOG
V. Overpopulated with undesirables, INFESTED
W. Molt, SHED
X. “The opposite of spiritual meanness,” per Barbara Kingsolver, EMPATHY
The full paragraph of the quotation: Hardly a week goes by that doesn’t see a study announcing a new discovery about animal minds: “Whales Have Accents and Regional Dialects,” “Fish Use Tools,” “Squirrels Adopt Orphans,” “Honeybees Make Plans,” “Sheep Don’t Forget a Face,” “Rats Feel Each Other’s Pain,” “Elephants See Themselves in Mirrors,” “Crows Able to Invent Tools,” and (for me, as a dog lover, a favorite) “Dog Has Vocabulary of 1,022 Words.” ~ Introduction, Animal Wise by Virginia Morell
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