Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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Pagina ix
... tree from that which is now given in our diagrams . There is , indeed , a general and , philosophically considered , most important parallelism running through the whole animal kingdom between structural affinity and mental development ...
... tree from that which is now given in our diagrams . There is , indeed , a general and , philosophically considered , most important parallelism running through the whole animal kingdom between structural affinity and mental development ...
Pagina 57
... tree or tower , and it is during the flight that fertilisation is effected . After it is effected , the swarm returns to the ground , when the males perish , either from falling a prey , in their shelterless condition , to birds or ...
... tree or tower , and it is during the flight that fertilisation is effected . After it is effected , the swarm returns to the ground , when the males perish , either from falling a prey , in their shelterless condition , to birds or ...
Pagina 61
... trees or shrubs where the aphides live . Forel saw a tunnel of this kind which was taken up a wall and down again on ... tree , and contained aphides carefully tended by the Huber records similar observations . ants . Sir John Lubbock ...
... trees or shrubs where the aphides live . Forel saw a tunnel of this kind which was taken up a wall and down again on ... tree , and contained aphides carefully tended by the Huber records similar observations . ants . Sir John Lubbock ...
Pagina 63
... tree . As I perceived that the only reason for this was the action of the aphides , ] determined to destroy them utterly . So in the March of the following year I took the trouble to clean and wash every bough , sprig , and bud before ...
... tree . As I perceived that the only reason for this was the action of the aphides , ] determined to destroy them utterly . So in the March of the following year I took the trouble to clean and wash every bough , sprig , and bud before ...
Pagina 64
George John Romanes. workers returning to the nest from the tree on which the milk- ing was going on , a far smaller ... trees , at the outlets of the subterranean galleries , a number of ants were assembled , which were fed by the ...
George John Romanes. workers returning to the nest from the tree on which the milk- ing was going on , a far smaller ... trees , at the outlets of the subterranean galleries , a number of ants were assembled , which were fed by the ...
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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.