Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1884 - 520 pages |
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... honey , their companions devote themselves to the honey , and entirely neglect their friends in distress ; and when partly drowned , their friends take no notice . When chloroformed or intoxicated their own companions either do not heed ...
... honey , their companions devote themselves to the honey , and entirely neglect their friends in distress ; and when partly drowned , their friends take no notice . When chloroformed or intoxicated their own companions either do not heed ...
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... honey before a marked specimen of the former species ; but although she visited and revisited the honey during an entire day , she brought out no friends to share it ; and although in her journeys to and from the nest she happened to ...
... honey before a marked specimen of the former species ; but although she visited and revisited the honey during an entire day , she brought out no friends to share it ; and although in her journeys to and from the nest she happened to ...
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... honey . I then put three ants to the honey , and when each had sufficiently fed , I imprisoned her , and put another ; thus always keep- ing three ants at the honey , but not allowing them to go home . If , then , they could summon ...
... honey . I then put three ants to the honey , and when each had sufficiently fed , I imprisoned her , and put another ; thus always keep- ing three ants at the honey , but not allowing them to go home . If , then , they could summon ...
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... honey - like fluid , which they eject from the abdomen . upon being stroked on this region by the antenn¿ of the ants . Mr. Darwin , who has watched the latter process , observes with regard to it , - I removed all the ants from a group ...
... honey - like fluid , which they eject from the abdomen . upon being stroked on this region by the antenn¿ of the ants . Mr. Darwin , who has watched the latter process , observes with regard to it , - I removed all the ants from a group ...
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... Honey - making Ant ( Myrmecocystus mexicanus ) . This ant is found in Texas and New Mexico . Capt . W. B. Fleeson ... honey - makers ; sole function to secrete a kind of honey in their large globose abdomens , on which the other ants are ...
... Honey - making Ant ( Myrmecocystus mexicanus ) . This ant is found in Texas and New Mexico . Capt . W. B. Fleeson ... honey - makers ; sole function to secrete a kind of honey in their large globose abdomens , on which the other ants are ...
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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.