Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1884 - 520 pages |
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... looking to authority alone with some other principles of selection , which , while embracing the enormous class of alleged facts recorded by unknown observers , might be felt to meet the requirements of a reasonably critical method . I ...
... looking to authority alone with some other principles of selection , which , while embracing the enormous class of alleged facts recorded by unknown observers , might be felt to meet the requirements of a reasonably critical method . I ...
Page 11
... looking upon instinct ' is merely to exclude the subject from the sphere of inquiry , and so to abstain from any attempt at definition . Innumerable other opinions might be quoted from well - known writers , looking upon instinct ' in ...
... looking upon instinct ' is merely to exclude the subject from the sphere of inquiry , and so to abstain from any attempt at definition . Innumerable other opinions might be quoted from well - known writers , looking upon instinct ' in ...
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... looking at the ruptured cell , an acti- nophrys made its appearance , and creeping round the cell , at last arrived at the crevice , from which it extricated one of the grains of starch mentioned , and then crept off to a good dis ...
... looking at the ruptured cell , an acti- nophrys made its appearance , and creeping round the cell , at last arrived at the crevice , from which it extricated one of the grains of starch mentioned , and then crept off to a good dis ...
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... looking through a microscope at some Euglena , & c . , which had been placed aside for examination in a watch - glass , my eye fell upon a stalked and triangular acineta ( A. mystacina ? ) , around which an amaba was creeping and ...
... looking through a microscope at some Euglena , & c . , which had been placed aside for examination in a watch - glass , my eye fell upon a stalked and triangular acineta ( A. mystacina ? ) , around which an amaba was creeping and ...
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... looking to all the other observations previously mentioned , there can be no question concern- ing the general fact that ants have the power of commu- nicating with one another . And under subsequent head- ings abundant additional ...
... looking to all the other observations previously mentioned , there can be no question concern- ing the general fact that ants have the power of commu- nicating with one another . And under subsequent head- ings abundant additional ...
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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.