Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1884 - 520 pages |
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Page 56
... feet above the mantel . The moment this spot is reached , an ant turns abruptly and makes for home , and in a little while there is not an ant visible on the wall . In a subsequent volume of Nature ' ( viii . p . 244 ) , Mr. Darwin ...
... feet above the mantel . The moment this spot is reached , an ant turns abruptly and makes for home , and in a little while there is not an ant visible on the wall . In a subsequent volume of Nature ' ( viii . p . 244 ) , Mr. Darwin ...
Page 58
... feet . They then lay their eggs , and become the queens of new colonies . Forel says that no fertilised female ever returns to her original home ; but that the workers keep back a certain number of females which are fertilised before ...
... feet . They then lay their eggs , and become the queens of new colonies . Forel says that no fertilised female ever returns to her original home ; but that the workers keep back a certain number of females which are fertilised before ...
Page 76
... feet square , and a number of skirmishes began , which soon ended in a general mêlée . Long before the event seemed certain , the negroes carried off their pupa to the most distant part of the nest ; and when , after a longer encounter ...
... feet square , and a number of skirmishes began , which soon ended in a general mêlée . Long before the event seemed certain , the negroes carried off their pupa to the most distant part of the nest ; and when , after a longer encounter ...
Page 79
... ordinary harvesting train , led from the entrance of one nest to that of another lower down the slope , and fifteen feet distant ; but on closer examination it appeared that though the great mass of 5 ANTS - WARS . 79 18.
... ordinary harvesting train , led from the entrance of one nest to that of another lower down the slope , and fifteen feet distant ; but on closer examination it appeared that though the great mass of 5 ANTS - WARS . 79 18.
Page 81
... feet around the city gate , and the ground was strewed with many dead bodies . The new colonists aimed altogether at cutting off the legs of their larger foes , which they accomplished with much success . The old - city warriors , on ...
... feet around the city gate , and the ground was strewed with many dead bodies . The new colonists aimed altogether at cutting off the legs of their larger foes , which they accomplished with much success . The old - city warriors , on ...
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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.