Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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Pagina 25
... turned to practical account in the so - called ' Oyster- schools ' of France . The distance from the coast to Paris being too great for the newly dredged oysters to travel without opening their shells , they are first taught in the ...
... turned to practical account in the so - called ' Oyster- schools ' of France . The distance from the coast to Paris being too great for the newly dredged oysters to travel without opening their shells , they are first taught in the ...
Pagina 33
... turned back . Soon , however , they returned , and passed the scented pencil . After doing this two or three times , they generally took no further notice of the scent . This experiment left no doubt on my mind . " In other cases the ...
... turned back . Soon , however , they returned , and passed the scented pencil . After doing this two or three times , they generally took no further notice of the scent . This experiment left no doubt on my mind . " In other cases the ...
Pagina 37
... turned the board round so that the side which had been turned towards the nest was away from it , and vice versa , the ants always returned over the same track on the board , and , in consequence , directly away from home . If I moved ...
... turned the board round so that the side which had been turned towards the nest was away from it , and vice versa , the ants always returned over the same track on the board , and , in consequence , directly away from home . If I moved ...
Pagina 38
... turned half round as soon as an ant had entered it , but in every case the ant turned too , thus retaining her direction . ' Lastly , Sir John took a disk of white paper , which he placed in the stead of the hat - box between the nest ...
... turned half round as soon as an ant had entered it , but in every case the ant turned too , thus retaining her direction . ' Lastly , Sir John took a disk of white paper , which he placed in the stead of the hat - box between the nest ...
Pagina 40
... turned out to be only intended as temporary repositories ; for in a few days both the old and the new burrows were entirely deserted , so that he supposed all the ants to have died . Subsequently , how- ever , he found that they had ...
... turned out to be only intended as temporary repositories ; for in a few days both the old and the new burrows were entirely deserted , so that he supposed all the ants to have died . Subsequently , how- ever , he found that they had ...
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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.