My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 2. köideDodd, Mead, 1905 |
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... which protected them from the attacks of insect - eating birds and other animals , led me at once to suppose that the gaudily - coloured caterpillars must have a similar protection . I had just ascertained from XXV ] 3 DARWIN.
... which protected them from the attacks of insect - eating birds and other animals , led me at once to suppose that the gaudily - coloured caterpillars must have a similar protection . I had just ascertained from XXV ] 3 DARWIN.
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... birds in his aviary , nor by young turkeys . Now , as a white moth is as conspicuous in the dusk as a coloured caterpillar in the daylight , this case seemed to me so much on a par with the other that I felt almost sure my explanation ...
... birds in his aviary , nor by young turkeys . Now , as a white moth is as conspicuous in the dusk as a coloured caterpillar in the daylight , this case seemed to me so much on a par with the other that I felt almost sure my explanation ...
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... birds , but have a garden much fre- quented by birds , may put all the caterpillars they can find in a soup plate or other vessel , which must be placed in a larger vessel of water , so that the creatures cannot escape , and then after ...
... birds , but have a garden much fre- quented by birds , may put all the caterpillars they can find in a soup plate or other vessel , which must be placed in a larger vessel of water , so that the creatures cannot escape , and then after ...
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... birds would soon learn to know them and thus let them alone ; because if birds could not tell the eat- able from the uneatable till they had seized and tasted them , the protection would be of no avail , a growing caterpillar being so ...
... birds would soon learn to know them and thus let them alone ; because if birds could not tell the eat- able from the uneatable till they had seized and tasted them , the protection would be of no avail , a growing caterpillar being so ...
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... birds of paradise had been thus gained . At that time , though I had begun to doubt , I had not definitely rejected the whole of that part of " sexual selection " depending on female pre- ference for certain colours and ornaments . On ...
... birds of paradise had been thus gained . At that time , though I had begun to doubt , I had not definitely rejected the whole of that part of " sexual selection " depending on female pre- ference for certain colours and ornaments . On ...
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