Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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Pagina 45
... honey , their companions devote themselves to the honey , and entirely neglect their friends in distress ; and when partly drowned , their friends take no notice . When chloroformed or intoxicated their own companions either do not heed ...
... honey , their companions devote themselves to the honey , and entirely neglect their friends in distress ; and when partly drowned , their friends take no notice . When chloroformed or intoxicated their own companions either do not heed ...
Pagina 52
... honey before a marked specimen of the former species ; but although she visited and revisited the honey during an entire day , she brought out no friends to share it ; and although in her journeys to and from the nest she happened to ...
... honey before a marked specimen of the former species ; but although she visited and revisited the honey during an entire day , she brought out no friends to share it ; and although in her journeys to and from the nest she happened to ...
Pagina 53
... honey . I then put three ants to the honey , and when each had sufficiently fed , I imprisoned her , and put another ; thus always keep- ing three ants at the honey , but not allowing them to go home . If , then , they could summon ...
... honey . I then put three ants to the honey , and when each had sufficiently fed , I imprisoned her , and put another ; thus always keep- ing three ants at the honey , but not allowing them to go home . If , then , they could summon ...
Pagina 60
... honey - like fluid , which they eject from the abdomen upon being stroked on this region by the antennæ of the ants . Mr. Darwin , who has watched the latter process , observes with regard to it , — I removed all the ants from a group ...
... honey - like fluid , which they eject from the abdomen upon being stroked on this region by the antennæ of the ants . Mr. Darwin , who has watched the latter process , observes with regard to it , — I removed all the ants from a group ...
Pagina 111
... Honey - making Ant ( Myrmecocystus mexicanus ) .- This ant is found in Texas and New Mexico . Capt . W. B. Fleeson ... honey - makers ; sole function to secrete a kind of honey in their large globose abdomens , on which the other ants ...
... Honey - making Ant ( Myrmecocystus mexicanus ) .- This ant is found in Texas and New Mexico . Capt . W. B. Fleeson ... honey - makers ; sole function to secrete a kind of honey in their large globose abdomens , on which the other ants ...
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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.