Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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Pagina 18
... took firm hold of the weed with its own forceps , and began the most extraordinary series of movements , which were obviously directed towards ridding itself of the encumbrance . It dashed from side to side in all directions with a ...
... took firm hold of the weed with its own forceps , and began the most extraordinary series of movements , which were obviously directed towards ridding itself of the encumbrance . It dashed from side to side in all directions with a ...
Pagina 28
... took place , would only require to have been of the nature of follow me , ' which , as we shall repeatedly find , is a degree of communicative ability which many inverte- brated animals possess . Therefore , in view of these con ...
... took place , would only require to have been of the nature of follow me , ' which , as we shall repeatedly find , is a degree of communicative ability which many inverte- brated animals possess . Therefore , in view of these con ...
Pagina 34
... took the right turn at the angle ; but the stranger ants , being guided only by scent , for the most part took the wrong turn at the angle , so going to the empty glass m . For out of 150 stranger ants only 21 went to h , while the ...
... took the right turn at the angle ; but the stranger ants , being guided only by scent , for the most part took the wrong turn at the angle , so going to the empty glass m . For out of 150 stranger ants only 21 went to h , while the ...
Pagina 38
... took a disk of white paper , which he placed in the stead of the hat - box between the nest and the food . When an ant was on the disk making towards the food , he gently drew the disk to the other side of the food , so that the ant was ...
... took a disk of white paper , which he placed in the stead of the hat - box between the nest and the food . When an ant was on the disk making towards the food , he gently drew the disk to the other side of the food , so that the ant was ...
Pagina 42
... took some of the ants newly hatched from the pupa in one division , and placed them in the other division , and vice versa . In all cases these ants were re- ceived by the members of the other half of the divided nest as friends ...
... took some of the ants newly hatched from the pupa in one division , and placed them in the other division , and vice versa . In all cases these ants were re- ceived by the members of the other half of the divided nest as friends ...
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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.