Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1884 - 520 pages |
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... pieces , after each bout of jerking it was seen to be still attached . This trial of strength , which must have involved an immense expenditure of energy in proportion to the size of the animals , lasted for several minutes , till ...
... pieces , after each bout of jerking it was seen to be still attached . This trial of strength , which must have involved an immense expenditure of energy in proportion to the size of the animals , lasted for several minutes , till ...
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... pieces of shell they were packed as closely as they could be . I noticed another case , which almost amounts , to my mind , to a proof that they prefer a smooth surface to a hole . A limpet had formed a clearing on one of the sea - weed ...
... pieces of shell they were packed as closely as they could be . I noticed another case , which almost amounts , to my mind , to a proof that they prefer a smooth surface to a hole . A limpet had formed a clearing on one of the sea - weed ...
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... pieces of ant - food ' from the nest most recently deluged with carbolic acid to that which had been similarly deluged a year before , and from which all the carbolic acid had long ago disappeared . ' Others carried the undeveloped ...
... pieces of ant - food ' from the nest most recently deluged with carbolic acid to that which had been similarly deluged a year before , and from which all the carbolic acid had long ago disappeared . ' Others carried the undeveloped ...
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... pieces of the clay soon liberated it . Another time I found a very few of them passing along at intervals . I confined one of these under a piece of clay at a little distance from the line , with his head projecting . Several ants ...
... pieces of the clay soon liberated it . Another time I found a very few of them passing along at intervals . I confined one of these under a piece of clay at a little distance from the line , with his head projecting . Several ants ...
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... pieces with incredible fury , and knots of five or six individuals which have pierced each other may be seen rolling over each other on the ground , it being impos- sible to distinguish between friend and foe . Civil wars among men are ...
... pieces with incredible fury , and knots of five or six individuals which have pierced each other may be seen rolling over each other on the ground , it being impos- sible to distinguish between friend and foe . Civil wars among men 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.