 Liesk assures me that he has repeatedly seen this effected. The crab begins by tearing the husk, fibre by fibre, and always from that end under which the three eye-holes are situated ; when this is completed, the crab commences hammering with its heavy...  A History of Crustacea: Recent Malacostraca - Pagina 154de Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing - 1893 - 466 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | John Timbs - 1840 - 430 pagini
...terminated by very strong and heavy pincers, and the last pair by others which are narrow and weak. It would at first be thought quite impossible for...cocoa-nut covered with the husk ; but Mr. Liesk assures me he has repeatedly seen the operation effected. The crab begins by tearing the husk, fibre by fibre,... | |
 | 1845 - 862 pagini
...terminated by very strong and heavy pincers, and the last pair by others which are narrow and weak. It would at first be thought quite impossible for a crab to open a strong cocoa nut covered with the husk ; but M. Leisk, resident in the island, assured Mr Darwin that he has... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 pagini
...Keeling Island which lives on cocoa-nuts? — and yet we have the testimony of Darwin to the fact : — " I have before alluded to a crab which lives on the...a strong cocoa-nut covered with the husk ; but Mr. Lusk assures me that he has repeatedly seen this effected. The crab begins by tearing the husk, fibre... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - 1858 - 588 pagini
...pincers, and the last pair by others of like structure, which are comparatively narrow and weak. " It would at first be thought quite impossible for...cocoa-nut, covered with the husk, but Mr. Liesk assures me he has repeatedly seen the operation effected. The crab begins by tearing the husk fibre by fibre,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1857 - 586 pagini
...terminated by тегу strong and heavy pincers, and the last pair by others which are narrow and weak. It would at first be thought quite impossible for...strong cocoa-nut, covered with the husk ; but Mr. Licsk assures me that he has repeatedly seen the operation effected. The crab begins by tearing away... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1857 - 584 pagini
...terminated by тегу strong and heavy pincers, nnd the last pair by others which are narrow and weak. It would at first be thought quite impossible for a crab to open a strong cocoa-uut, covered with the husk ; but Mr. Liest assures me that he has repeatedly seen the operation... | |
 | 1859 - 512 pagini
...Keeling Island : they live upon the cocoa-nuts that fall from the trees which flourish there. " The first pair of legs terminate in very strong and heavy pincers,...for a crab to open a strong cocoa-nut covered with husk ; but Mr. Liesk assures me that he has repeatedly seen this effected. The crab begins by tearing... | |
 | John George Wood - 1863 - 830 pagini
...Mr. Darwin gives the following interesting account of this crab : — " It would at first be thought impossible for a crab to open a strong cocoa-nut covered with the husk, but Mr. Liesk assures me he has repeatedly seen the operation effected The crab begins by tearing the husk, fibre by fibre,... | |
 | World - 1868 - 528 pagini
...legs, terminated by strong and heavy pincers, and the least pair by others which are narrow and weak. It would at first be thought quite impossible for...open a strong cocoa-nut covered with the husk ; but M. Liesk assures me he has repeatedly seen the operation effected. The crab begins by tearing the husk,... | |
 | Invention - 1868 - 230 pagini
...terminated by very strong and heavy pincers, and the least pair by others which are narrow and weak. It would at first be thought quite impossible for...open a strong cocoa-nut covered with the husk ; but M. Liesk assures me he has repeatedly seen the operation effected. The crab begins by tearing the husk,... | |
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