Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1884 - 520 pages |
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... carrying the pupa on h to the nest A. Whenever an ant came out of A upon B he transposed the slips ƒ and g . Therefore at the angle below n there was a choice pre- sented to the ant of taking the unscented pathway leading to the full ...
... carrying the pupa on h to the nest A. Whenever an ant came out of A upon B he transposed the slips ƒ and g . Therefore at the angle below n there was a choice pre- sented to the ant of taking the unscented pathway leading to the full ...
Page 40
... carrying it to newly formed ones a few yards distant . These , however , turned out to be only intended as temporary ... carried the undeveloped white pupa and larvæ . It was a wholesale and entire migration ; ' and the next day the nest ...
... carrying it to newly formed ones a few yards distant . These , however , turned out to be only intended as temporary ... carried the undeveloped white pupa and larvæ . It was a wholesale and entire migration ; ' and the next day the nest ...
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... carry them about for a time in a somewhat aimless manner . ' Further experiments , however , on a larger scale , went to show that chloroformed ants were treated as dead , i.e. removed ... carried into the nest , if they ANTS EMOTIONS . 45.
... carry them about for a time in a somewhat aimless manner . ' Further experiments , however , on a larger scale , went to show that chloroformed ants were treated as dead , i.e. removed ... carried into the nest , if they ANTS EMOTIONS . 45.
Page 46
George John Romanes. ants were generally carried into the nest , if they were ants belonging to that community ; if not , they were thrown overboard . This care shown towards intoxicated friends appears to indicate a dim sense of ...
George John Romanes. ants were generally carried into the nest , if they were ants belonging to that community ; if not , they were thrown overboard . This care shown towards intoxicated friends appears to indicate a dim sense of ...
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... carried her away into the nest . It would have been difficult for any one who witnessed this scene to have denied to this ant the pos- session of humane feelings . ' Moggridge is also of opinion that the habit of throwing sick and ...
... carried her away into the nest . It would have been difficult for any one who witnessed this scene to have denied to this ant the pos- session of humane feelings . ' Moggridge is also of opinion that the habit of throwing sick and ...
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Page 360 - ... repast. I had not long habituated him to this taste of liberty, before he began to be impatient for the return of the time when he might enjoy it. He would invite me to the garden by drumming upon my knee, and by a look of such expression as it was not possible to misinterpret.
Page 171 - Maclaurin, by a fluxionary calculation, which is to be found in the Transactions of the Royal Society of London. He has determined precisely the angle required ; and he found, by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honeycomb do actually meet.
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Page 359 - ... knee. He was ill three days, during which time I nursed him ; kept him apart from his fellows, that they might not molest him (for, like many other wild animals, they persecute one of their own species that is sick) and, by constant care, and trying him with a variety of herbs, restored him to perfect health. No creature...
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