Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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Pagina 61
... doors of these chambers are too small to allow the aphides to escape , while large enough for the ants to pass in and out . Forel saw such a prison or stable shaped like a cocoon , and about a centimètre long , which was hanging on the ...
... doors of these chambers are too small to allow the aphides to escape , while large enough for the ants to pass in and out . Forel saw such a prison or stable shaped like a cocoon , and about a centimètre long , which was hanging on the ...
Pagina 77
... doors are often guarded by special sentries , which fulfil their important duty in various ways . Forel saw a nest of the Colobopsis truncata , the two or three very small round open- ings of which were watched by soldiers , arranged so ...
... doors are often guarded by special sentries , which fulfil their important duty in various ways . Forel saw a nest of the Colobopsis truncata , the two or three very small round open- ings of which were watched by soldiers , arranged so ...
Pagina 97
... door Spiders , London , 1873 and Sup plement , 1874 . 2 Journal Linn Soc . , vol . vi . p . 29 , 1862 . Agricultural Ant of Texas , Philadelphia , 1880 . 4 Trans . Ent . Soc . Lond . , i , 103 , 1836 . 5 Madras Journ . Lit. Sc . 1851 ...
... door Spiders , London , 1873 and Sup plement , 1874 . 2 Journal Linn Soc . , vol . vi . p . 29 , 1862 . Agricultural Ant of Texas , Philadelphia , 1880 . 4 Trans . Ent . Soc . Lond . , i , 103 , 1836 . 5 Madras Journ . Lit. Sc . 1851 ...
Pagina 98
... door , so they tried to dismember it . Failing in this , several ants drew the wings and legs as far back as possible , while others gnawed through the mu cles where the strain was greatest . They succeeded at last in thus pulling it in ...
... door , so they tried to dismember it . Failing in this , several ants drew the wings and legs as far back as possible , while others gnawed through the mu cles where the strain was greatest . They succeeded at last in thus pulling it in ...
Pagina 108
... of struggling anthood was piled up around the gate . A stream of eager insects continually poured out of the door , pushing their way through the crowd that vainly but persistently endeavoured to get 108 ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE .
... of struggling anthood was piled up around the gate . A stream of eager insects continually poured out of the door , pushing their way through the crowd that vainly but persistently endeavoured to get 108 ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE .
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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.