Miniatures and Giants
Miniatures and Giants
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微型和巨人
DOI：
10.1002/j.2326-1951.1983.tb02660.x
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发表时间：
1983
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通讯作者：
A. Skutch
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作者：
A. Skutch
ONE OF THE TRIUMPHS of modern technology is onal as those of honeybees. miniaturization, the development of small Especially outstanding among birds' nests are the felted radios, calculators, and many other things, usuallyelec- fabrications of hummingbirds and American flycatchtronic, that can do whatever the larger, early models did, ers, the woven nests of Old World weaverbirds and New with great saving of materials and energy-no small ad- World orioles and their relatives, the domed clay ovens vantage in a world that uses both too lavishly. A minia- of South American horneros, and the intricate castles of ture is not merely something small, but a small object interlaced twigs built by other members ofthe samegreat that embodies the essential neotropical family. Birds'
