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Message: [QUOTE="Oliver Buckle, post: 303743, member: 12649"] I don't think so, researchers are usually pleased that people take an interest. For example, did you read about the Japanese boy who wrote to an American entomologist asking if his butterflies might have memory of him keeping them as caterpillars? She helped him to devise an experiment to test it, then arranged for him to read the results at an entomology conference in Japan she was attending. It may be a bit sexist, but I would also expect that sort of reaction to be more likely from a male researcher, and even if they do the loss is theirs, apart from the cost of a letter, not even that if you can do it on line. [/QUOTE]