Download or read book The Hungry Fly written by Vincent Gaston Dethier and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a n exploration of what we mean when we say that an animal is 'hungry'; it analyzes the concepts of motivation and drive as tested in extensive and elegant experiments on blowflies. The fly, then, is incidental; concepts and experimental techniques for evaluating them are the main subject.