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 Forms |
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... Migration of the Ants from a Nest attacked - Corrosive Sublimate causes a sort
of Madness amongst them - Indian plan of preventing their ascending young
Trees - Leaf - cutting Ants are fungus - growers and eatersSagacity of the Ants . .
... Migration of the Ants from a Nest attacked - Corrosive Sublimate causes a sort
of Madness amongst them - Indian plan of preventing their ascending young
Trees - Leaf - cutting Ants are fungus - growers and eatersSagacity of the Ants . .
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... looking like logs in the water , excepting that one stretched up his head and
gave a bellow like a bull . They sometimes kill calves and young horses , and I
was told of one that had scized a full - grown horse , but its struggles being
observed ...
... looking like logs in the water , excepting that one stretched up his head and
gave a bellow like a bull . They sometimes kill calves and young horses , and I
was told of one that had scized a full - grown horse , but its struggles being
observed ...
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When in columns , I found that it was generally , if not always , in search of the
nests of another ant ( IIypoclinea sp . ) , which bear their young in holes in rotten
trunks of fallen timber , and are very common in cleared places . The Ch . II . ]
PREY ...
When in columns , I found that it was generally , if not always , in search of the
nests of another ant ( IIypoclinea sp . ) , which bear their young in holes in rotten
trunks of fallen timber , and are very common in cleared places . The Ch . II . ]
PREY ...
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I never saw the Ecitons injure the Hypoclineas themselves , they were always
contented with despoiling them of their young . The ant that is attacked is a very
cowardly species , and never shows fight . I often found it running about sipping
at ...
I never saw the Ecitons injure the Hypoclineas themselves , they were always
contented with despoiling them of their young . The ant that is attacked is a very
cowardly species , and never shows fight . I often found it running about sipping
at ...
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I have seen them pulling out the larv¿ and pup¿ from the cells of a large wasp '
s nest , whilst the wasps hovered about , powerless , before the multitude of the
invaders , to render any protection to their young . I have no doubt that many
birds ...
I have seen them pulling out the larv¿ and pup¿ from the cells of a large wasp '
s nest , whilst the wasps hovered about , powerless , before the multitude of the
invaders , to render any protection to their young . I have no doubt that many
birds ...
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| Title | 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 Forms |
| Author | Thomas Belt |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1874 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 28 aug. 2008 |
| Length | 403 pages |
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