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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... species and not varieties , and indeed might have taken rank as species , did they not invariably display a tendency to recede to the ancestral short brown fur and upright ears of the wild Rabbit . This animal lives , as we all know ...
... species and not varieties , and indeed might have taken rank as species , did they not invariably display a tendency to recede to the ancestral short brown fur and upright ears of the wild Rabbit . This animal lives , as we all know ...
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... species are said to be able to outstrip a man . This may pos- sibly be the case in the native country of the animal , but those specimens which have been brought to England in a living state would certainly be overtaken by a man of ...
... species are said to be able to outstrip a man . This may pos- sibly be the case in the native country of the animal , but those specimens which have been brought to England in a living state would certainly be overtaken by a man of ...
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... species of Toucan , all of which are easily recognisable on account of the colours of the beak , for in all these birds the enormous bill is decorated with strangely brilliant tints . In one species the beak is rich orange and black ...
... species of Toucan , all of which are easily recognisable on account of the colours of the beak , for in all these birds the enormous bill is decorated with strangely brilliant tints . In one species the beak is rich orange and black ...
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... species of Land Crab are known , some of which possess rather curious habits . The FIGHTING CRAB ( Gelasimus bellator ) , is a good example of them . This species possesses one very large and one very little claw , so that it looks as ...
... species of Land Crab are known , some of which possess rather curious habits . The FIGHTING CRAB ( Gelasimus bellator ) , is a good example of them . This species possesses one very large and one very little claw , so that it looks as ...
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... species . " There is an opinion that the gastric juice secreted in the stomach may be the means through which the tunnelling is con- ducted , and that instead of being employed as food within the body it is poured out upon the stone ...
... species . " There is an opinion that the gastric juice secreted in the stomach may be the means through which the tunnelling is con- ducted , and that instead of being employed as food within the body it is poured out upon the stone ...
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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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