The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of Chontales; Journeys in the Savannahs and Forests. With Observations on Animals and Plants in Reference to the Theory of Evolution of Living FormsJ. Murray, 1874 - 403 pages |
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... its safety depended on its immovability , that it allowed me to pick it up and replace it amongst the ants without making a single effort to escape . This species closely resembles a green leaf , and the other senses , © 2.
... its safety depended on its immovability , that it allowed me to pick it up and replace it amongst the ants without making a single effort to escape . This species closely resembles a green leaf , and the other senses , © 2.
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... species of ant - thrushes always accompany the army ants in the forest . They do not , however , feed on the ants , but on the insects they disturb . Besides the ant - thrushes , trogons , creepers , and a variety of other birds , are ...
... species of ant - thrushes always accompany the army ants in the forest . They do not , however , feed on the ants , but on the insects they disturb . Besides the ant - thrushes , trogons , creepers , and a variety of other birds , are ...
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... species , and never shows fight . I often found it running about sipping at the glands of leaves , or milking aphides , leaf - hoppers , or scale - insects that it found unattended by other ants . On the approach of another , though of ...
... species , and never shows fight . I often found it running about sipping at the glands of leaves , or milking aphides , leaf - hoppers , or scale - insects that it found unattended by other ants . On the approach of another , though of ...
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... species . The moving columns of Ecitons are composed almost entirely of workers of different sizes , but at intervals of two or three yards there are larger and lighter coloured individuals that often stop , and sometimes run a little ...
... species . The moving columns of Ecitons are composed almost entirely of workers of different sizes , but at intervals of two or three yards there are larger and lighter coloured individuals that often stop , and sometimes run a little ...
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... species imperfect , and in others entirely absent ; in this they differ greatly from the Pseudomyrma ants , which hunt singly and which have the eyes greatly developed . The imperfection of eyesight in the Ecitons is an advantage to the ...
... species imperfect , and in others entirely absent ; in this they differ greatly from the Pseudomyrma ants , which hunt singly and which have the eyes greatly developed . The imperfection of eyesight in the Ecitons is an advantage to the ...
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