Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1884 - 520 pages |
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Page 57
... workers and increased in number , and there is a great commotion on the sur- face of the nest . The swarm takes place as a thick cloud of all the male and female insects , rising together to a considerable height . The flight continues ...
... workers and increased in number , and there is a great commotion on the sur- face of the nest . The swarm takes place as a thick cloud of all the male and female insects , rising together to a considerable height . The flight continues ...
Page 58
... workers keep back a certain number of females which are fertilised before the swarming takes place ; in this case the workers pull off the wings of the fertilised females . The majority of observers , how- ever , maintain that some of ...
... workers keep back a certain number of females which are fertilised before the swarming takes place ; in this case the workers pull off the wings of the fertilised females . The majority of observers , how- ever , maintain that some of ...
Page 59
... workers assist them to get out of their larval cases by biting through the walls of the latter . It is noticeable that in doing this the workers do not keep to any exact time , but free them sometimes earlier and sometimes later , in ...
... workers assist them to get out of their larval cases by biting through the walls of the latter . It is noticeable that in doing this the workers do not keep to any exact time , but free them sometimes earlier and sometimes later , in ...
Page 63
... distant branches , and setting them on the young leaves.1 Again- MacCook noticed , of the mound - making ants , that of the 1 Loc . cit . p . 121 . workers returning to the nest from the tree on which ANTS - KEEPING APHIDES . 63.
... distant branches , and setting them on the young leaves.1 Again- MacCook noticed , of the mound - making ants , that of the 1 Loc . cit . p . 121 . workers returning to the nest from the tree on which ANTS - KEEPING APHIDES . 63.
Page 64
George John Romanes. workers returning to the nest from the tree on which the milk- ing was going on , a far smaller number had distended abdomens than among those descending the tree itself . A closer investi- gation showed that at the ...
George John Romanes. workers returning to the nest from the tree on which the milk- ing was going on , a far smaller number had distended abdomens than among those descending the tree itself . A closer investi- gation showed that at the ...
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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.
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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...
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