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Show Salmon's Homing Instinct Subject of Dispute Stanford University, Calif. Salmons' alleged homing instinct, or tendency to return re-turn at maturity to spawn in the waters where they were hatched, has become a point of debate among marine zoologists. zo-ologists. In Science, Dr. Willis H. Rich of Stanford university takes issue on the subject with Dr. A. G. Huntsman Hunts-man of the University of Toronto. Dr. Huntsman has declared that salmon do not "go home," but Dr. Rich points to the existence of many distinct strains of Pacific coast salmon sal-mon as evidence that they do. If salmon went up "just any old river" riv-er" the distinctions between varieties vari-eties would disappear through hybridization, hy-bridization, he believes. |