Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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Pagina 13
... young child would not so quickly learn to do so in virtue of its own individual experience alone ; and as the action cannot be attri- buted to any process of conscious inference , it is not rational ; but wo have seen that it is not ...
... young child would not so quickly learn to do so in virtue of its own individual experience alone ; and as the action cannot be attri- buted to any process of conscious inference , it is not rational ; but wo have seen that it is not ...
Pagina 20
... young ciliated monadic germs issued forth , one after another , from the dehis- cent spore - cell , the actinophrys remained by it and caught every one of them , even to the last , when it retired to another part of the field , as if ...
... young ciliated monadic germs issued forth , one after another , from the dehis- cent spore - cell , the actinophrys remained by it and caught every one of them , even to the last , when it retired to another part of the field , as if ...
Pagina 21
... young acineta , tender , anl without poisonous tentacles ( for they are not developed at birth ) . just ready to make its exit from the parent , an exit which takes place so quickly , and is followed by such rapid bounding move- ments ...
... young acineta , tender , anl without poisonous tentacles ( for they are not developed at birth ) . just ready to make its exit from the parent , an exit which takes place so quickly , and is followed by such rapid bounding move- ments ...
Pagina 43
... young ones until the moment when , some days after arriving at maturity , they were introduced into the nest ; and yet in all ten cases they were undoubtedly recog- nised as belonging to the community . It seems to me , therefore , to ...
... young ones until the moment when , some days after arriving at maturity , they were introduced into the nest ; and yet in all ten cases they were undoubtedly recog- nised as belonging to the community . It seems to me , therefore , to ...
Pagina 59
... young creature is then washed , brushed , and fed , we are involuntarily reminded of the nursing of human babies . The empty cases , or cocoons , are carried outside the nest , and may be seen heaped together there for a long time ...
... young creature is then washed , brushed , and fed , we are involuntarily reminded of the nursing of human babies . The empty cases , or cocoons , are carried outside the nest , and may be seen heaped together there for a long time ...
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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.