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The feeding reaction of a frog or toad is relatively a simple matter , being
fundamentally an automatic response — a ready ... ( 1 ) The Mistaken View that
Frogs and Toads are Indiscriminate Feeders — The earliest experiments bearing
on ...
The feeding reaction of a frog or toad is relatively a simple matter , being
fundamentally an automatic response — a ready ... ( 1 ) The Mistaken View that
Frogs and Toads are Indiscriminate Feeders — The earliest experiments bearing
on ...
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Hugh Bamford Cott. the hive , and each on subsequent visits throughout the
week would have nothing more to do with the insects ' . These results appear all
the more remarkable when we remember that the toads were hungry ( having
had no ...
Hugh Bamford Cott. the hive , and each on subsequent visits throughout the
week would have nothing more to do with the insects ' . These results appear all
the more remarkable when we remember that the toads were hungry ( having
had no ...
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and 19 , which refused the insects throughout , every individual toad showed an
improvement by a diminished number of ... and 27 ) ; and ( 4 ) that the number of
toads altogether refusing bees throughout the respective experiments rises from
...
and 19 , which refused the insects throughout , every individual toad showed an
improvement by a diminished number of ... and 27 ) ; and ( 4 ) that the number of
toads altogether refusing bees throughout the respective experiments rises from
...
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Contents
THE METHODS BY WHICH CONCEALMENT | 5 |
ADAPTIVE RADIATION IN COLOUR RESEMBLANCE II | 11 |
COLOUR RESEMBLANCE DUE TO CHOICE OF APPROPRIATE BACKGROUNDS | 18 |
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