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 FormsJ. Murray, 1874 - 403 pages |
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... followed in a canoe , and ultimately recovered the body , but life was extinct . The alligator cannot devour his prey beneath the water , but crawls on land with it after he has drowned it . They are said to catch wild pigs in the ...
... followed in a canoe , and ultimately recovered the body , but life was extinct . The alligator cannot devour his prey beneath the water , but crawls on land with it after he has drowned it . They are said to catch wild pigs in the ...
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... followed up these columns often ; generally they led to dense masses of impenetrable 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 ...
... followed up these columns often ; generally they led to dense masses of impenetrable 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 ...
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... followed by others , which , however , did not keep straight on like the first , but ran a short way , then returned , then again followed a little further than the first time . They were evidently scenting the trail of the pioneer ...
... followed by others , which , however , did not keep straight on like the first , but ran a short way , then returned , then again followed a little further than the first time . They were evidently scenting the trail of the pioneer ...
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... followed them up for two or three hundred yards without getting to the end . They make their temporary habitations in hollow trees , and sometimes underneath large fallen trunks that offer suitable hollows . A nest that I came across in ...
... followed them up for two or three hundred yards without getting to the end . They make their temporary habitations in hollow trees , and sometimes underneath large fallen trunks that offer suitable hollows . A nest that I came across in ...
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... followed up the paths of the invading hosts to their nest , which was about one hundred yards distant , close to the edge of the forest . The nest was not a very large one , the low mound of earth covering it being about four yards in ...
... followed up the paths of the invading hosts to their nest , which was about one hundred yards distant , close to the edge of the forest . The nest was not a very large one , the low mound of earth covering it being about four yards in ...
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