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... round the cell , at last arrived at the crevice , from which it extricated one of the grains of starch mentioned , and then crept off to a good dis- tance . Presently , however , it returned to the same cell ; and although there were ...
... round the cell , at last arrived at the crevice , from which it extricated one of the grains of starch mentioned , and then crept off to a good dis- tance . Presently , however , it returned to the same cell ; and although there were ...
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... round its body . This mark of affection , too much like that frequently evinced at the other end of the scale , even where there is a mind for its control , did not long remain with- out interpretation . There was a young acineta ...
... round its body . This mark of affection , too much like that frequently evinced at the other end of the scale , even where there is a mind for its control , did not long remain with- out interpretation . There was a young acineta ...
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... round these fragments was free from limpets ; but on the smooth surface of the 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 ...
... round these fragments was free from limpets ; but on the smooth surface of the 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 ...
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... round the spot where the coveted object first stood . Then they would retrace their steps towards the nest , wander hither and thither from side to side between the nest and the point A , and only after very repeated efforts around the ...
... round the spot where the coveted object first stood . Then they would retrace their steps towards the nest , wander hither and thither from side to side between the nest and the point A , and only after very repeated efforts around the ...
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... round so that the side which had been turned towards the nest was away from it , and vice versa , the ants always returned over the same track on the board , and , in consequence , directly away from home . If I moved my board to the ...
... round so that the side which had been turned towards the nest was away from it , and vice versa , the ants always returned over the same track on the board , and , in consequence , directly away from home . If I moved my board to the ...
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Página 138 - A nest was made near one of our tramways, and to get to the trees the ants had to cross the rails, over which the waggons were continually passing and repassing. Every time they came along a number of ants were crushed to death. They persevered in crossing for some time, but at last set to work and tunnelled underneath each rail. One day, when the waggons were not running, I stopped up the tunnels with stones ; but although great numbers carrying leaves were thus cut off from the nest, they would...
Página 27 - Lonsdale, informs me that he placed a pair of landsnails (Helix pomatia), one of which was weakly, in a small and illprovided garden. After a short time the strong and healthy individual disappeared, and was traced by its track of slime over a wall into an adjoining well-stocked garden. Mr. Lonsdale concluded that it had deserted its sickly mate; but after an absence...
Página 300 - ... its load with a jerk, and quite disengaged it from the nest. It remained in this situation a short time, feeling about with the extremities of its wings, as if to be convinced whether the business was properly executed, and then dropped into the nest again.