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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... the WISH - TON - WISH , but it is usually known by the name of Prairie Dog , though it is a rodent and not a carnivorous animal . The reason of its popular name FWKEYL lies in the short yelping sound which it is 22 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS .
... the WISH - TON - WISH , but it is usually known by the name of Prairie Dog , though it is a rodent and not a carnivorous animal . The reason of its popular name FWKEYL lies in the short yelping sound which it is 22 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS .
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... usually abandons the burrow , and resumes its labours elsewhere , and in a piece of hard sandstone rock many of these incomplete excavations may be seen . At the furthest extremity of the burrow , which is always rather larger than the ...
... usually abandons the burrow , and resumes its labours elsewhere , and in a piece of hard sandstone rock many of these incomplete excavations may be seen . At the furthest extremity of the burrow , which is always rather larger than the ...
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... usually one which has but a very small entrance ; and it is said that when the orifice . is too large , the mother bird lessens it by kneading clay into the sides . It has already been mentioned that the wryneck defends its nest by the ...
... usually one which has but a very small entrance ; and it is said that when the orifice . is too large , the mother bird lessens it by kneading clay into the sides . It has already been mentioned that the wryneck defends its nest by the ...
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... usually printed . It is curiously stiff also , and is so formed that no one who saw it for the first time would be likely to guess at its real character . The micro- scope , however , reveals its true character at once . If the interior ...
... usually printed . It is curiously stiff also , and is so formed that no one who saw it for the first time would be likely to guess at its real character . The micro- scope , however , reveals its true character at once . If the interior ...
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... usually devouring six of the victims , consuming the softer parts only , and leaving the head , shell of the abdomen , part of the thorax , and the limbs . Ten days suffice for the completion of its feeding , and it then spins a tough ...
... usually devouring six of the victims , consuming the softer parts only , and leaving the head , shell of the abdomen , part of the thorax , and the limbs . Ten days suffice for the completion of its feeding , and it then spins a tough ...
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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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