Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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Pagina 18
... directions with a vigour and suddenness which were highly astonish- ing , so that it seemed as if the animalcule would ... direction and now in another , were , as I have said , most surprising . But not less surprising was the tenacity ...
... directions with a vigour and suddenness which were highly astonish- ing , so that it seemed as if the animalcule would ... direction and now in another , were , as I have said , most surprising . But not less surprising was the tenacity ...
Pagina 26
... directions in which it bad pulled ineffectually before it began to pull in the third direction ; and it is improbable that snail shells are so frequently caught in positions from which a pull in only one direction will Bingley , loc ...
... directions in which it bad pulled ineffectually before it began to pull in the third direction ; and it is improbable that snail shells are so frequently caught in positions from which a pull in only one direction will Bingley , loc ...
Pagina 27
... directions at right angles to one another . The only other instance that I have met with of the apparent display of intelligence in snails is the remark- able one which Mr. Darwin gives in his ' Descent of Man , ' on the authority of Mr ...
... directions at right angles to one another . The only other instance that I have met with of the apparent display of intelligence in snails is the remark- able one which Mr. Darwin gives in his ' Descent of Man , ' on the authority of Mr ...
Pagina 28
... direction and locality for twenty - four hours , but also no small degree of something akin to ' permanent attachment , ' and sympa- thetic desire that another should share in the good things which one has found.1 The case to which I ...
... direction and locality for twenty - four hours , but also no small degree of something akin to ' permanent attachment , ' and sympa- thetic desire that another should share in the good things which one has found.1 The case to which I ...
Pagina 29
... direction and locality implied by this fact seems to justify us in regarding these actions of the animal as of a nature unquestionably intelligent . Coming now to the cephalopoda , there is no doubt that if a larger sphere of ...
... direction and locality implied by this fact seems to justify us in regarding these actions of the animal as of a nature unquestionably intelligent . Coming now to the cephalopoda , there is no doubt that if a larger sphere of ...
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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.