Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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Pagina 7
... pass the problem aside as one reserved for separate treatment . Here I desire only to make it plain that the mind of animals must be placed in the same category , with reference to this pro- blem , as the mind of man ; and that we ...
... pass the problem aside as one reserved for separate treatment . Here I desire only to make it plain that the mind of animals must be placed in the same category , with reference to this pro- blem , as the mind of man ; and that we ...
Pagina 11
... pass on at once to the manner in which science looks upon it , or , at least , the manner in which it will always be looked upon throughout the present work . Without concerning ourselves with the origin of in- stincts , and so without ...
... pass on at once to the manner in which science looks upon it , or , at least , the manner in which it will always be looked upon throughout the present work . Without concerning ourselves with the origin of in- stincts , and so without ...
Pagina 21
... pass into some other form in the body of its host , I watched the ameba for some time afterwards , until the tale ended by the young acineta becoming divided into two parts , and thus in their respective digestive spaces ultimately ...
... pass into some other form in the body of its host , I watched the ameba for some time afterwards , until the tale ended by the young acineta becoming divided into two parts , and thus in their respective digestive spaces ultimately ...
Pagina 38
... pass in at one hole and out at the other . The box was fixed upon a central pivot , so as to admit of being rotated easily without much friction or disturbance . When the ants had well learnt their way , the box was turned half round as ...
... pass in at one hole and out at the other . The box was fixed upon a central pivot , so as to admit of being rotated easily without much friction or disturbance . When the ants had well learnt their way , the box was turned half round as ...
Pagina 41
... pass on to consider a class of highly re- markable facts , perhaps the most remarkable of the many remarkable facts connected with ant psychology . It has been known since the observations of Huber that all the ants of the same nest or ...
... pass on to consider a class of highly re- markable facts , perhaps the most remarkable of the many remarkable facts connected with ant psychology . It has been known since the observations of Huber that all the ants of the same nest or ...
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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.