Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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Pagina 20
... cells and actinophryans for further examination , when I observed one of the spore - like cells had become ruptured , and that a portion of its protoplasm , charged with the triangular starch - grains , was slightly protruding through ...
... cells and actinophryans for further examination , when I observed one of the spore - like cells had become ruptured , and that a portion of its protoplasm , charged with the triangular starch - grains , was slightly protruding through ...
Pagina 65
... cells . In order to confirm this observation , Lespès placed a piece of sugar near a nest of slave - makers . It was soon found by one of the slaves , which gorged itself and re- turned to the nest . Other slaves then came out and did ...
... cells . In order to confirm this observation , Lespès placed a piece of sugar near a nest of slave - makers . It was soon found by one of the slaves , which gorged itself and re- turned to the nest . Other slaves then came out and did ...
Pagina 111
... cells , the walls of which are formed by the same process as the exterior . In New South Wales there is another species of ant which also frequents trees , but builds within the stem and branches . In the report of Captain Cook's ...
... cells , the walls of which are formed by the same process as the exterior . In New South Wales there is another species of ant which also frequents trees , but builds within the stem and branches . In the report of Captain Cook's ...
Pagina 125
... cell at D. Into this cell were also placed a number of ants along with the larvæ . The drop from D to C was only an inch ; still , though the ants reached over and showed a great anxiety to take this short cut home , they none of them ...
... cell at D. Into this cell were also placed a number of ants along with the larvæ . The drop from D to C was only an inch ; still , though the ants reached over and showed a great anxiety to take this short cut home , they none of them ...
Pagina 126
... cell which they were able to touch with their antennæ . That the species of ants on which Sir John Lubbock experimented were not , however , quite destitute of intel- ligence is proved by the result of the following experi- ment : - I ...
... cell which they were able to touch with their antennæ . That the species of ants on which Sir John Lubbock experimented were not , however , quite destitute of intel- ligence is proved by the result of the following experi- ment : - I ...
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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.