NATURAL 

 HISTORY 



Vol. 103, No. 3, March 1994 



Cover: a feral Soay ram in winter fleece mounts the crest of a hill in Scotland's 

 Saint Kilda archipelago, where 70 percent of the sheep die off every three to four years. 

 Story on page 28. Photograph by Laurie Campbell. 



4 A Naturalist at Large / whitfieid Gibbons 



How to Catch a Gator 



8 Macaque See, Macaque Do Meredith f. Small 



An island paradise for tourists is marred by monkey muggings. 



1 2 This View of Life Stephen Jay Gould 

 The Persistently Flat Earth 



20 This Land Roben H. Mohlenbrock 



Summerby Swatnp, Michigan 



24 Science Lite Roger l weisch 



The Hyphenated American 



26 Celestial Events GaU s. cieere 



Getting Through the Night 



28 Counting Sheep Tim ciutton-Brock 



Wiy do feral animals on a remote Scottish island behave like lemmings? 



36 Tropical Liaisons 

 ON A Beetle's Back 



Jeanne A. Zeh and David W. Zeh 



For some arthropods, large harlequin beetles are convenient Love Boats. 



46 Judas Transformed June Nash 



During Holy Week in the troubled Chiapas region of Mexico, Indians have been pointing 

 out their enemies for decades. 



54 Britain's Magpie Parliament Tim Birkhead 



Darwin thought they discussed sex, 

 but the birds probably meet to argue 

 about real estate. 



60 North America's Magpies 

 62 Reviews / Worth Estes 



A Quixotic Search for New Drugs 



76 A Matter of Taste 



Raymond Sokolov 

 Breaking Bread, Tradition, 

 atid a Long Run 



82 At the American Museum 

 OF Natural History 



84 The Natural Moment 



Photograph by Robert Caputo 

 The Eggs and I 



86 Authors 



