Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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Pagina viii
... close a mesh . Where one of my objects was to determine the upper limit of intelligence reached by this and that class , order , or species of animals , I usually found that the most remarkable instances of the display of intel- ligence ...
... close a mesh . Where one of my objects was to determine the upper limit of intelligence reached by this and that class , order , or species of animals , I usually found that the most remarkable instances of the display of intel- ligence ...
Pagina 7
... close attention that it demands ; but in the present volume , which has to deal only with the pheno- mena of mind as such , I expressly pass the problem aside as one reserved for separate treatment . Here I desire only to make it plain ...
... close attention that it demands ; but in the present volume , which has to deal only with the pheno- mena of mind as such , I expressly pass the problem aside as one reserved for separate treatment . Here I desire only to make it plain ...
Pagina 13
... close its eyes upon the near approach of a threatening body , and it only learns to do so by degrees as the result of experience ; at first , therefore , the action of closing the eyelids in order to protect the eyes may be said to be ...
... close its eyes upon the near approach of a threatening body , and it only learns to do so by degrees as the result of experience ; at first , therefore , the action of closing the eyelids in order to protect the eyes may be said to be ...
Pagina 20
... close to a ripe spore - cell of pythium , which was situated upon a filament of Spirogyra crassa ; and as the young ciliated monadic germs issued forth , one after another , from the dehis- cent spore - cell , the actinophrys remained ...
... close to a ripe spore - cell of pythium , which was situated upon a filament of Spirogyra crassa ; and as the young ciliated monadic germs issued forth , one after another , from the dehis- cent spore - cell , the actinophrys remained ...
Pagina 46
... close to the nest . In a second bottle I put two ants from another nest of the same species . The ants which were at liberty took no notice of the bottle containing their imprisoned friends . The strangers in the other bottle , on the ...
... close to the nest . In a second bottle I put two ants from another nest of the same species . The ants which were at liberty took no notice of the bottle containing their imprisoned friends . The strangers in the other bottle , on the ...
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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.