Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1884 - 520 pages |
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... experiments and pathological lesions prove that in our own and in other organisms the mechanism of the nervous system is sufficient , without the intervention of consciousness , to produce muscular movements of a highly co - ordinate ...
... experiments and pathological lesions prove that in our own and in other organisms the mechanism of the nervous system is sufficient , without the intervention of consciousness , to produce muscular movements of a highly co - ordinate ...
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... experiments which have been conducted during the short period named . The observers to whom we are mainly indebted for this large increase of our knowledge are Messrs . Bates , Belt , Müller , Moggridge , Lincecum , MacCook , and Sir ...
... experiments which have been conducted during the short period named . The observers to whom we are mainly indebted for this large increase of our knowledge are Messrs . Bates , Belt , Müller , Moggridge , Lincecum , MacCook , and Sir ...
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... experiments showed that the dislike is much greater in the case of some colours than in that of others . Thus under a slip of red glass there were congregated on one occasion 890 ants , under green 544 , under yellow 495 , and under ...
... experiments showed that the dislike is much greater in the case of some colours than in that of others . Thus under a slip of red glass there were congregated on one occasion 890 ants , under green 544 , under yellow 495 , and under ...
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... experiments with sensitive flames , microphone , telephone , & c . , failed to yield any evidence of ants emitting ... experiment left no doubt on my mind . " In other cases the ants were observed to wave about and throw back their ...
... experiments with sensitive flames , microphone , telephone , & c . , failed to yield any evidence of ants emitting ... experiment left no doubt on my mind . " In other cases the ants were observed to wave about and throw back their ...
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... experiment may be quoted . In the accompany- ing woodcut ( Fig . 2 ) the line marked 1 , 2 , 3 represents the edge of a paper bridge leading to the nest ; A the top of a pencil which is standing perpendicularly upon a board ...
... experiment may be quoted . In the accompany- ing woodcut ( Fig . 2 ) the line marked 1 , 2 , 3 represents the edge of a paper bridge leading to the nest ; A the top of a pencil which is standing perpendicularly upon a board ...
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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.