The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of Chontales; Journeys in the Savannahs and Forests; with Observations on Animals and Plants in Reference to the Theory of Evolution of Living FormsE. Bumpus, 1888 - 403 pages |
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... brushwood , which grows where the original forest has been cut down , there are large trees covered with numerous epiphytes - Tillandsias , orchids , ferns , and a hundred others , that make every big tree an aërial garden . Great arums ...
... brushwood , which grows where the original forest has been cut down , there are large trees covered with numerous epiphytes - Tillandsias , orchids , ferns , and a hundred others , that make every big tree an aërial garden . Great arums ...
Page 7
... brushwood is to be crossed , such as a road , two or three of the females will fly across first , before the male will venture to do so , and he is always more careful to get himself concealed amongst the foliage than his mates . I ...
... brushwood is to be crossed , such as a road , two or three of the females will fly across first , before the male will venture to do so , and he is always more careful to get himself concealed amongst the foliage than his mates . I ...
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... brushwood . The cockroaches , spiders , and other insects , instead of running right away , would ascend the fallen branches and remain there , whilst the host of ants were occupying all the ground below . By - and - by up would come ...
... brushwood . The cockroaches , spiders , and other insects , instead of running right away , would ascend the fallen branches and remain there , whilst the host of ants were occupying all the ground below . By - and - by up would come ...
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... brushwood , but twice they led me to cracks in the ground , down which the ants dragged their prey . These habitations are only temporary , for in a few days not an ant would be seen in the neighbourhood ; all would have moved off to ...
... brushwood , but twice they led me to cracks in the ground , down which the ants dragged their prey . These habitations are only temporary , for in a few days not an ant would be seen in the neighbourhood ; all would have moved off to ...
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... brush- wood suitable for hunting . In a very short space of time the information was communicated to the ants below , and a dense column rushed up to search for their prey . The Ecitons are singular amongst the ants in this respect ...
... brush- wood suitable for hunting . In a very short space of time the information was communicated to the ants below , and a dense column rushed up to search for their prey . The Ecitons are singular amongst the ants in this respect ...
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