Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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Pagina 23
... moved first to one side and then to the other side of the bell , in order to give suck to the larvæ on the sides of the bell - the larvæ dipping their long noses into the nutrient fluids which that organ of the parent's body contained ...
... moved first to one side and then to the other side of the bell , in order to give suck to the larvæ on the sides of the bell - the larvæ dipping their long noses into the nutrient fluids which that organ of the parent's body contained ...
Pagina 34
... moved a 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 ...
... moved a 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 ...
Pagina 36
... moved , the line de was now out- side them . The change , however , did not at all discompose the ants ; but instead of going , as before , through the tunnel and between the rows of bricks to a , they walked exactly Keeping the board ...
... moved , the line de was now out- side them . The change , however , did not at all discompose the ants ; but instead of going , as before , through the tunnel and between the rows of bricks to a , they walked exactly Keeping the board ...
Pagina 37
... moved my board to the other side of my artificial nest , the result was the same . Evidently they followed the road , not the direction . ' There can be little doubt that ants have a sense of taste , as they are so well able to ...
... moved my board to the other side of my artificial nest , the result was the same . Evidently they followed the road , not the direction . ' There can be little doubt that ants have a sense of taste , as they are so well able to ...
Pagina 39
... moved , we can understand why they do not know that it is being moved when it is moved in the direction of their advance , as in the experiment with the paper slip . distant . He poured down their burrows a pint of ANTS - MEMORY . 39.
... moved , we can understand why they do not know that it is being moved when it is moved in the direction of their advance , as in the experiment with the paper slip . distant . He poured down their burrows a pint of ANTS - MEMORY . 39.
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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.