Alternatively, whether preferences are expressed during short pair-wise encounters may depend on the mating status of the female (unpaired vs. paired).
In contrast, pair-wise encounters of sexually inexperienced birds (experiment 1) seem unsuitable for the measurement of female preferences and male attractiveness [12].
This was done on three occasions over a period of six months: approximately three months before the start of experiments, during pair-wise encounters (experiment 1), and, another three months later, during choice-chamber tests (experiment 2).
To maximise statistical power, we included both pair-wise encounters [ 47] and encounters in trios [ 43].
During their journeys, they often encounter wise older women who sometimes serve as foils, sometimes as mother figures.
Well, we can point to specific examples of our fellows who have become more caring, wiser people through encounters with literature.
The digitally animated real world, that is, in which the hero, a talking dog voiced by the real-life movie star John Travolta, encounters wise-guy pigeons, a cynical cat (Susie Essman) and a worshipful, geeky hamster named Rhino (Mark Walton).
If Sagan is right, then the wise race we encountered would treat us with immense consideration and respect, while having the technology to ensure that we treat them similarly.
The strangeness increases exponentially as Dinesen encounters a wise woman in a cave who asks him what Ingeborg's mother was like.
The poem then goes on to catalogue the riches that only travel can bring: harbors we have never seen before; fabulous treasure from foreign ports, amber and ebony and coral, exotic perfumes; and encounters with wise strangers.
Under his tree, Plop encounters several wise heads who love the dark – a little boy, an old lady, a Boy Scout, a girl waiting for Christmas, a naturalist, an astronomer, and, most memorable of all, the elegant hunting cat Orion, a miniature urban Bagheera, who tells the little owl about the beauty of the night.
