Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1884 - 520 pages |
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... 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 glass h , or the scented pathway ...
... 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 glass h , or the scented pathway ...
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... nest and the food he placed a hat - box twelve inches in diameter and seven inches high , cutting two small holes , so that the ants in passing from the nest to the food had to pass in at one hole and out at the other . The box was ...
... nest and the food he placed a hat - box twelve inches in diameter and seven inches high , cutting two small holes , so that the ants in passing from the nest to the food had to pass in at one hole and out at the other . The box was ...
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... nest , constitutes ample proof that the ant remembers the way to the store . It is of considerable interest , however , to note that the nature of this insect - memory appears to be , as far as it goes , precisely identical with that of ...
... nest , constitutes ample proof that the ant remembers the way to the store . It is of considerable interest , however , to note that the nature of this insect - memory appears to be , as far as it goes , precisely identical with that of ...
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... nest of the year before , where they were busily employed in making fresh exca- vations . Many were bringing along pieces of ant - food ' from the nest most recently deluged with carbolic acid to that which had been similarly deluged a ...
... nest of the year before , where they were busily employed in making fresh exca- vations . Many were bringing along pieces of ant - food ' from the nest most recently deluged with carbolic acid to that which had been similarly deluged a ...
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... nest or community recognise one another as friends , while an ant introduced from another nest , even though it be an ant of the same species , is known at once to be a foreigner , and is usually maltreated or put to death . Huber found ...
... nest or community recognise one another as friends , while an ant introduced from another nest , even though it be an ant of the same species , is known at once to be a foreigner , and is usually maltreated or put to death . Huber found ...
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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.