Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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Pagina 20
... distance , it knew how to find its way back to the cell again which furnished this nutriment . On another occasion I saw an actinophrys station itself close to a ripe spore - cell of pythium , which was situated upon a filament of ...
... distance , it knew how to find its way back to the cell again which furnished this nutriment . On another occasion I saw an actinophrys station itself close to a ripe spore - cell of pythium , which was situated upon a filament of ...
Pagina 25
... distance from the coast to Paris being too great for the newly dredged oysters to travel without opening their shells , they are first taught in the schools to bear a longer and longer exposure to the air without gaping , and when their ...
... distance from the coast to Paris being too great for the newly dredged oysters to travel without opening their shells , they are first taught in the schools to bear a longer and longer exposure to the air without gaping , and when their ...
Pagina 34
... distance of a few inches from its first position A. On the top of this pencil were placed some pupa . Sir John Lub- bock , after contriving this arrangement , marked an ant and put it upon the pupæ on the top of the pencil . After she ...
... distance of a few inches from its first position A. On the top of this pencil were placed some pupa . Sir John Lub- bock , after contriving this arrangement , marked an ant and put it upon the pupæ on the top of the pencil . After she ...
Pagina 40
... prepared as a nest , forthwith proceeded to transfer the food and pupa to it . Still , as the two nests were separated from one another by so considerable a distance , this hypothesis does not seem 10 ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE .
... prepared as a nest , forthwith proceeded to transfer the food and pupa to it . Still , as the two nests were separated from one another by so considerable a distance , this hypothesis does not seem 10 ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE .
Pagina 41
George John Romanes. so considerable a distance , this hypothesis does not seem probable , and the only other one open to us is that the ants remembered the site of their former home for a period of twelve months . And this conclusion is ...
George John Romanes. so considerable a distance , this hypothesis does not seem probable , and the only other one open to us is that the ants remembered the site of their former home for a period of twelve months . And this conclusion is ...
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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.