Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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Pagina 18
... watched the movements of certain Infusoria without feeling it difficult to believe that these little animals are not actuated by some amount of intelli- gence . Even if the manner in which they avoid collisions be attributed entirely to ...
... watched the movements of certain Infusoria without feeling it difficult to believe that these little animals are not actuated by some amount of intelli- gence . Even if the manner in which they avoid collisions be attributed entirely to ...
Pagina 21
... 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 becoming broken down and digested.1 With regard to these ...
... 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 becoming broken down and digested.1 With regard to these ...
Pagina 34
... watched two particular ( marked ) ants proceeding from A to h and back again , carrying the pupa on h to the nest A. Whenever an ant came out of A upon B he transposed the slips ƒ and g . Therefore at the angle below n there was a ...
... watched two particular ( marked ) ants proceeding from A to h and back again , carrying the pupa on h to the nest A. Whenever an ant came out of A upon B he transposed the slips ƒ and g . Therefore at the angle below n there was a ...
Pagina 37
... and fro to food over a wooden bridge . When they had got quite accustomed to the way , he watched when an ant was upon a bridge which could be rotated , and while she 4 was passing along it , he turned it round ANTS SENSE OF DIRECTION . 37.
... and fro to food over a wooden bridge . When they had got quite accustomed to the way , he watched when an ant was upon a bridge which could be rotated , and while she 4 was passing along it , he turned it round ANTS SENSE OF DIRECTION . 37.
Pagina 46
... watched , though not , as far as I could see , with any system , till 7.30 in the evening , when they effected an entrance , and immediately at- tacked the strangers . Sept. 24. - I repeated the same experiment with the same nest ...
... watched , though not , as far as I could see , with any system , till 7.30 in the evening , when they effected an entrance , and immediately at- tacked the strangers . Sept. 24. - I repeated the same experiment with the same nest ...
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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.