 Then turning round its body, by the aid of its posterior and narrow pair of pincers, it extracts the white albuminous substance. I think this is as curious a case of instinct as ever I heard of, and likewise of adaptation in structure between two objects...  A History of Crustacea: Recent Malacostraca - Pagina 155de Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing - 1893 - 466 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1845 - 862 pagini
...remote from each other, in the scheme of nature, as a crab and a cocoa-nut tree.' The burgos is dormant in its habits ; but every night it is said to pay...doubt for the purpose of moistening its branchiae THE ALIBL SOME twenty years ago (before steam and railroads had annihilated distances, and made 'going... | |
 | 1845 - 854 pagini
...remote from each other, in the scheme of nature, as a crab and a cocoa-nut tree.' The burgos is dormant in its habits ; but every night it is said to pay...the sea, no doubt for the purpose of moistening its branchiœ. THE ALIBI. SOME twenty years ago (before steam and railroads had annihilated distances,... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - 1858 - 588 pagini
...apparently so remote from each other in the scheme of nature as a crab and a cocoa-nut-tree. This crab is diurnal in its habits, but every night it is said...coast. These crabs inhabit deep burrows, which they excavate beneath the roots of trees ; and here they accumulate surprising quantities of the picked... | |
 | John George Wood - 1863 - 830 pagini
...apparently so remote from each other in the scheme of nature as a crab and a cocoa-nut tree. This crab is diurnal in its habits, but every night it is said...coast. These crabs inhabit deep burrows, which they excavate beneath the roots of trees, and here they accumulate surprising quantities of the picked fibres... | |
 | John George Wood - 1863 - 840 pagini
...apparently so remote from each other in the scheme ( if nature as a crab and a cocoa-nut tree. This crab is diurnal in its habits, but every night it is said...the sea, no doubt for the purpose of moistening its branchire. The young are likewise hatched and live for some time on the coast. . These crabs inhabit... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - 1865 - 624 pagini
...surprising quantities of picked cocoa-nut husks, on which it rests as on a bed. Its habits are dinrnal, but every night it is said to pay a visit to the sea for the purpose of moistening its branchiaa. It is very good to eat, and the fat accumulated under... | |
 | Edward Balfour - 1871 - 1174 pagini
...quantities of picked fibre of cocoanut husks, on which it rests as on a bed. Its habits are diurnal, but every night it is said to pay a visit to the sea, perhaps to moisten its branches. It is very good to eat, and the great mass of fat accumulated under... | |
 | Edward Balfour - 1871 - 1170 pagini
...quantities of picked fibre of cocoanul husks, on »hich it rests as on a bed. Its habits are diurnal, but every night it is said to pay a visit to the «ea, perhaps to moisten its branchese. It is very good to eat , and the great mass of fat accumulated... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1876 - 574 pagini
...of the eye-holes till an opening is made. Then turning round its body, by the aid of its posterior and narrow pair of pincers, it extracts the white...coast. These crabs inhabit deep burrows, which they hollowout beneath the roots of trees ; and where they accumulate surprising quantities of the picked... | |
 | Otto Gottlieb Johann Mohnike - 1883 - 758 pagini
...ben Reeling > ^nfeln : „The Birgos is diurnal in its habits; •'*' 556 ever}' night it is saifl to pay a visit to the sea, no doubt for the purpose of moistering its branchiae1', nwljrcnb bevfelbe auf Stmboina nur bc$ 5Иоф1о foœo&l паф Síaljrung... | |
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