Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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... length and minute subdivision with which it is necessary to treat some of the groups . Anatomically , an ant or a bee does not require more consideration than a beetle or a fly ; but psychologically there is need for as great a ...
... length and minute subdivision with which it is necessary to treat some of the groups . Anatomically , an ant or a bee does not require more consideration than a beetle or a fly ; but psychologically there is need for as great a ...
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... length and breadth of the Enimal kingdom . In these preliminary remarks only one other point requires brief consideration , and this has reference to the distinction between what in popular phraseology is called ' Instinct ' and ...
... length and breadth of the Enimal kingdom . In these preliminary remarks only one other point requires brief consideration , and this has reference to the distinction between what in popular phraseology is called ' Instinct ' and ...
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... length , and , attaching its foot vertically above , tried to pull the shell out in a straight line . Not succeeding , it rested for a few minutes and then stretched out its body on the right side and pulled its utmost , but failed ...
... length , and , attaching its foot vertically above , tried to pull the shell out in a straight line . Not succeeding , it rested for a few minutes and then stretched out its body on the right side and pulled its utmost , but failed ...
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... 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 e . ' " α ...
... 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 e . ' " α ...
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... length she went back to the nest for assistance , and returned accompanied by seven friends . So great was her excitement , however , that she outran these friends , who seemed to have come out reluctantly , as if they had been asleep ...
... length she went back to the nest for assistance , and returned accompanied by seven friends . So great was her excitement , however , that she outran these friends , who seemed to have come out reluctantly , as if they had been asleep ...
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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.