Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals, Classed According to Their Principle of ConstructionLongmans, Green and Company, 1866 - 632 páginas |
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... entrance - The TATUA , or DUTCHMAN'S PIPE - Structure and shape of its nest - Firmness of the walls - Average number of cells in each tier - The Common WASP as a Pensile insect - Gigantic nest - Union of three colonies - Character of ...
... entrance - The TATUA , or DUTCHMAN'S PIPE - Structure and shape of its nest - Firmness of the walls - Average number of cells in each tier - The Common WASP as a Pensile insect - Gigantic nest - Union of three colonies - Character of ...
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... Entrance to the nest - The winter trea- sury - The LOIRE and the LEROT - Man as a Branch - builder - Moselekatze - His conquests - Effects upon the people - Branch - houses - Their approaches . 514 CHAPTER XXVIII . FEATHERED BRANCH ...
... Entrance to the nest - The winter trea- sury - The LOIRE and the LEROT - Man as a Branch - builder - Moselekatze - His conquests - Effects upon the people - Branch - houses - Their approaches . 514 CHAPTER XXVIII . FEATHERED BRANCH ...
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... summer nest - Its store- house and provisions - Entrance to the nest - The WOOD MOUSE and its nest- Uses of the Field Mice - The DOMESTIC MOUSE - Various nests - Rapidity of nest - building - A nest in a bottle - CONTENTS . XV.
... summer nest - Its store- house and provisions - Entrance to the nest - The WOOD MOUSE and its nest- Uses of the Field Mice - The DOMESTIC MOUSE - Various nests - Rapidity of nest - building - A nest in a bottle - CONTENTS . XV.
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... entrance into the keep is from the upper gallery , out of which three passages lead into the ceiling of the keep . It will be seen , therefore , that when a Mole enters the house from one of his tunnels , he has first to get into the ...
... entrance into the keep is from the upper gallery , out of which three passages lead into the ceiling of the keep . It will be seen , therefore , that when a Mole enters the house from one of his tunnels , he has first to get into the ...
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... entrance , which is always below the water ; and the burrow rises gradually upwards , so that at the extremity the animal is lodged on dry ground . It is instinctively careful to avoid too close a proximity to the surface of the earth ...
... entrance , which is always below the water ; and the burrow rises gradually upwards , so that at the extremity the animal is lodged on dry ground . It is instinctively careful to avoid too close a proximity to the surface of the earth ...
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Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals ... John George Wood Visualização integral - 1866 |
Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals ... John George Wood Visualização integral - 1866 |
Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals ... John George Wood Visualização integral - 1866 |
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