Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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Pagina 29
... inches , each embedded in the chalk . The chalk all round these fragments was free from limpets ; but on the smooth ... inch in diameter , standing up above the surface of the chalk ; it projected so much that a tap from my hammer broke ...
... inches , each embedded in the chalk . The chalk all round these fragments was free from limpets ; but on the smooth ... inch in diameter , standing up above the surface of the chalk ; it projected so much that a tap from my hammer broke ...
Pagina 34
... 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 had made two ...
... 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 had made two ...
Pagina 35
... inches from A to B. That is , the ants on their journey to the shifted object travelled very often back- 6 132 B Fig ... inches by 12 inches , and so arranged that the ants in going straight from. ANTS - SPECIAL SENSES . 35.
... inches from A to B. That is , the ants on their journey to the shifted object travelled very often back- 6 132 B Fig ... inches by 12 inches , and so arranged that the ants in going straight from. ANTS - SPECIAL SENSES . 35.
Pagina 36
... inches in length and 14 inches in height . When they got to know their way they went quite straight along the line de to a . The board was then twisted as shown in Fig . 4. The bricks and tunnel being b a Fig . 4 . along the old path to ...
... inches in length and 14 inches in height . When they got to know their way they went quite straight along the line de to a . The board was then twisted as shown in Fig . 4. The bricks and tunnel being b a Fig . 4 . along the old path to ...
Pagina 38
... inches in diameter and seven inches high , cutting two small holes , so that the ants in passing from the nest to the food had to pass in at one hole and out at the other . The box was fixed upon a central pivot , so as to admit of ...
... inches in diameter and seven inches high , cutting two small holes , so that the ants in passing from the nest to the food had to pass in at one hole and out at the other . The box was fixed upon a central pivot , so as to admit 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.