Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 11. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1875 |
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Page 127
... tail for this purpose is , I think , best of all illustrated in the great ant - eater ( Myrmecophaga jubata ) , in which the hairs of the tail reach a very great size , and cover up the animal when reposing , so that he looks like a ...
... tail for this purpose is , I think , best of all illustrated in the great ant - eater ( Myrmecophaga jubata ) , in which the hairs of the tail reach a very great size , and cover up the animal when reposing , so that he looks like a ...
Page 211
... tails from an old one , and shaking the other . When holding albino rats by the tail , I have had the skin of the tip of the tail left in my hand , while the rat has run off with the bone protruding , apparently uncon- cerned . Have any ...
... tails from an old one , and shaking the other . When holding albino rats by the tail , I have had the skin of the tip of the tail left in my hand , while the rat has run off with the bone protruding , apparently uncon- cerned . Have any ...
Page 221
... tail was of fair height and finely jagged throughout ; under web much lower and margin plain ; column of apical half of tail silvery white , the webs orange - brown ; basal half of tail with webs nearly black . On the following day ...
... tail was of fair height and finely jagged throughout ; under web much lower and margin plain ; column of apical half of tail silvery white , the webs orange - brown ; basal half of tail with webs nearly black . On the following day ...
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