Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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... 1 . CHAPTER V. TERMITES SPIDERS AND SCORPIONS CHAPTER VI . • • 19 204 CHAPTER VII . REMAINING ARTICULATA 226 CHAPTER VIII . FISH 241 CHAPTER IX . BATRACHIANS AND REPTILES • 254 PAGE CHAPTER X. BIRDS 266 CHAPTER XI . MAMMALS 326 2.
... 1 . CHAPTER V. TERMITES SPIDERS AND SCORPIONS CHAPTER VI . • • 19 204 CHAPTER VII . REMAINING ARTICULATA 226 CHAPTER VIII . FISH 241 CHAPTER IX . BATRACHIANS AND REPTILES • 254 PAGE CHAPTER X. BIRDS 266 CHAPTER XI . MAMMALS 326 2.
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George John Romanes. PAGE CHAPTER X. BIRDS 266 CHAPTER XI . MAMMALS 326 CHAPTER XII . RODENTS . · 353 CHAPTER XIII . ELEPHANT 386 · THE CAT . CHAPTER XIV . . 411 CHAPTER XV . FOXES , WOLVES , JACKALS , & C . THE DOG . CHAPTER XVI ...
George John Romanes. PAGE CHAPTER X. BIRDS 266 CHAPTER XI . MAMMALS 326 CHAPTER XII . RODENTS . · 353 CHAPTER XIII . ELEPHANT 386 · THE CAT . CHAPTER XIV . . 411 CHAPTER XV . FOXES , WOLVES , JACKALS , & C . THE DOG . CHAPTER XVI ...
Pagina 57
... shelterless condition , to birds or spiders , or , on account of not being able to feed themselves , from starvation . The workers , or neuter ants , of their own colony have lost all interest in them from the moment ANTS SWARMING . 57.
... shelterless condition , to birds or spiders , or , on account of not being able to feed themselves , from starvation . The workers , or neuter ants , of their own colony have lost all interest in them from the moment ANTS SWARMING . 57.
Pagina 174
... bird to make its nest , I believe that the hive - bee has acquired through natural selection her inimitable architectural powers . ' Mr. Darwin next tested this theory by the experiment of introducing into beehives plates of wax , and ...
... bird to make its nest , I believe that the hive - bee has acquired through natural selection her inimitable architectural powers . ' Mr. Darwin next tested this theory by the experiment of introducing into beehives plates of wax , and ...
Pagina 228
... bird , & c . The burial is performed because the corpse , if left above ground , would either dry up , or grow rotten , or be eaten by other animals . In all these cases the young would perish , whereas the dead body lying in the earth ...
... bird , & c . The burial is performed because the corpse , if left above ground , would either dry up , or grow rotten , or be eaten by other animals . In all these cases the young would perish , whereas the dead body lying in the earth ...
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Pagina 140 - ... the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.
Pagina 360 - ... repast. I had not long habituated him to this taste of liberty, before he began to be impatient for the return of the time when he might enjoy it. He would invite me to the garden by drumming upon my knee, and by a look of such expression, as it was not possible to misinterpret. If this rhetoric did not immediately succeed, he would take the skirt of my coat between his teeth, and pull it with all his force.
Pagina i - Heredity." $1.50. 42. ANTS, BEES, AND WASPS. A Record of Observations of the Habits of the Social Hymenoptera. By Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, Bart., FRS, DCL, LL.
Pagina 171 - Maclaurin, by a fluxionary calculation, which is to be found in the Transactions of the Royal Society of London. He has determined precisely the angle required ; and he found, by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honeycomb do actually meet.