Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1884 - 520 pages |
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Page 29
... covered blocks before referred to . In the midst of this clearing was a pedestal of flint rather more than one inch in diameter , standing up above the surface of the chalk ; it projected so much that a tap from my hammer broke it off ...
... covered blocks before referred to . In the midst of this clearing was a pedestal of flint rather more than one inch in diameter , standing up above the surface of the chalk ; it projected so much that a tap from my hammer broke it off ...
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... covered , so as to make of it a dark chamber . Direction of light being the source of their information that their ground is being moved , we can understand why they do not know that it is being moved when it is moved in the direction ...
... covered , so as to make of it a dark chamber . Direction of light being the source of their information that their ground is being moved , we can understand why they do not know that it is being moved when it is moved in the direction ...
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... covered a space of nearly two hundred square mètres . " All the members of such a colony , even those from the further- most nest , recognise each other and admit no stranger . ' Similarly , MacCook describes an ' ant town ' in the ...
... covered a space of nearly two hundred square mètres . " All the members of such a colony , even those from the further- most nest , recognise each other and admit no stranger . ' Similarly , MacCook describes an ' ant town ' in the ...
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... covered one up with a piece of clay , leaving only the ends of its antennæ projecting . It was soon discovered by its fellows , which set to work immediately , and by biting off pieces of the clay soon liberated it . Another time I ...
... covered one up with a piece of clay , leaving only the ends of its antennæ projecting . It was soon discovered by its fellows , which set to work immediately , and by biting off pieces of the clay soon liberated it . Another time I ...
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... covered with a thin skin , like a little shirt , which has to be pulled off . When we see how neatly and gently this is done , and how the young creature is then washed , brushed , and fed , we are involuntarily reminded of the nursing ...
... covered with a thin skin , like a little shirt , which has to be pulled off . When we see how neatly and gently this is done , and how the young creature is then washed , brushed , and fed , we are involuntarily reminded of the nursing ...
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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.
Page i - ANIMAL LIFE AS AFFECTED BY THE NATURAL CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE.
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...
Page 11 - For my own part, I look upon it as upon the principle of gravitation in bodies, which is not to be explained by any known qualities inherent in the bodies themselves, nor from any laws of mechanism, but, according to the best notions of the greatest philosophers, is an immediate impression from the first mover, and the divine energy acting in the creatures.