Animals: A Text-book of ZoologyD. Appleton, 1905 |
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... give a full year to the subject . It is believed that it will be found a very desirable text , also , for an ... gives the ecological features of the subject special prominence . Full indexes will be found at the end of each section ...
... give a full year to the subject . It is believed that it will be found a very desirable text , also , for an ... gives the ecological features of the subject special prominence . Full indexes will be found at the end of each section ...
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... gives off from any part of its body carbonic - acid gas . Although the Amaba has no lungs or gills or other special organs of respiration , it breathes in oxygen and gives out carbonic - acid gas , which is just what the horse does with ...
... gives off from any part of its body carbonic - acid gas . Although the Amaba has no lungs or gills or other special organs of respiration , it breathes in oxygen and gives out carbonic - acid gas , which is just what the horse does with ...
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... to which we can profitably give some special attention is Gregarina ( Fig . 9 ) , the various species of which live in the alimentary canal * of crayfishes and centipeds and certain insects . THE LIFE OF THE SIMPLEST ANIMALS 13.
... to which we can profitably give some special attention is Gregarina ( Fig . 9 ) , the various species of which live in the alimentary canal * of crayfishes and centipeds and certain insects . THE LIFE OF THE SIMPLEST ANIMALS 13.
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... gives the color to green plants and is so important in their physiology . In this respect they differ from the other Protozoa . Among the other Volvocinæ , however , a few or many cells live together , forming a small colony - that is ...
... gives the color to green plants and is so important in their physiology . In this respect they differ from the other Protozoa . Among the other Volvocinæ , however , a few or many cells live together , forming a small colony - that is ...
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... give the ball- like colony a rotary motion . The cells are held together by a jelly - like intercellular substance and are connect- ed with each other by fine protoplasmic threads which extend from the body pro- toplasm of one cell to ...
... give the ball- like colony a rotary motion . The cells are held together by a jelly - like intercellular substance and are connect- ed with each other by fine protoplasmic threads which extend from the body pro- toplasm of one cell to ...
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Animals: A Text-book of Zoology David Starr Jordan,Vernon Lyman Kellogg,Harold Heath Visualização integral - 1902 |
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adaptation adult alimentary canal Amaba ants become bees beetles birds body wall burrow butterfly called caterpillars cavity chitin CLASS colony color complex animals composed crab crustaceans degeneration digestive egg cells enemies existence external eyes feed female fish flagella free-swimming function gastrula habits hatched host Hydra illus inclosed individuals insects instinct intestine jelly-fishes kinds of animals larva larvæ layer live male mals mammals many-celled animals mass medusæ mouth muscles naturalists nerve nest ocean oesophagus one-celled opening organs outer oxygen Pandorina papillæ Paramecium parasites parent plants polyp possess prey primitive processes produced protective resemblance protoplasm Protozoa pseudopods pupa queen Radiolaria reflex action reproductive cells Sacculina sea-anemone shape shell simple simplest animals single cell skin special sense species sperm cells spherical spiders sponge stage structure substance surface swimming tentacles tion vertebrates Volvox Vorticella wings workers worms young
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Página 115 - There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate, that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in less than a thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny.
Página 88 - ... identity of its own. Although in its young stages it may be indistinguishable from some other kind of animal in similar stages, it is sure to come out, when fully developed, an individual of the same kind as its parents were or are. The young fish and the young salamander in the upper row in Fig.
Página 164 - Russian naturalist, of the hunting habits of the great white-tailed eagle (Halioetos alMcilla) on the Russian steppes shows that this kind of eagle at least has adopted a gregarious habit, in which mutual help is plainly obvious. This naturalist once saw an eagle high in the air, circling slowly and widely in perfect silence. Suddenly the eagle screamed loudly. "Its cry was soon answered by another eagle, which approached it, and was followed by a third, a fourth, and so on, till nine or ten eagles...
Página 20 - ... inhabitants of the water has followed a roundabout path from the surface to the bottom and then back into the water. When this fact is seen in all its bearings and its full significance is grasped, it is certainly one of the most notable and instructive features of evolution. The food-supply of marine animals consists of a few species of microscopic organisms which are inexhaustible and the only source of food for all the inhabitants of the ocean.
Página 215 - He cannot be mistaken for any other, and his flaming vest and blue stockings show that he does not court concealment. He is very abundant in the damp woods, and I was convinced he was uneatable so soon as I made his acquaintance and saw the happy sense of security with which he hopped about. I took a few specimens home with me, and tried my fowls and ducks with them ; but none would touch them. At last, by throwing down pieces of meat, for which there was a great competition amongst them, I managed...
Página 116 - The elephant is reckoned the slowest breeder of all known animals, and I have taken some pains to estimate its probable minimum rate of natural increase; it will be safest to assume that it begins breeding when thirty years old, and goes on breeding till ninety years old, bringing forth six young in the interval, and surviving till one hundred years old ; if this be so, after a period of from 740 to 750 years there would be nearly nineteen million elephants alive, descended from the first pair.
Página 16 - These animals are the marine Protozoa, those of the " simplest animals " which live in the ocean. Although the water at the surface of the ocean appears clear, and on superficial examination devoid of life, yet a drop of this water taken from certain 'ocean regions examined under the microscope reveals the fact that this water is inhabited by Protozoa. Not only is the water at the very surface of the ocean the home of the simplest animals, but they can be found in all the water from the surface to...
Página 216 - The prongs represent the last pair of larval legs which have been greatly modified from their ordinary shape and use. The end of the body is at the same time curved forward over the back (generally much further than in Fig. 112), so that the pink filaments are brandished above the head.
Página 253 - Mono had never seen an egg, but his inherited impulses bore a direct relation to feeding on eggs, just as the heredity of Macacus taught the others how to crack nuts or to peel fruit. To each of these monkeys we gave an egg, the first that any of them had ever seen. The baby monkey, Mono, being of an egg-eating race, devoured his egg by the operation of instinct or inherited habit.
Página 153 - Finally, a small mass of food is put into the cell, and the cell is 'capped' or covered with wax. Each larva, after eating all its food, in two or three days more changes into a pupa, which lies quiescent without eating for thirteen days, when it changes into a full-grown bee. The new bee breaks open the cap of the cell with its jaws and comes out into the hive, ready to take up its share of the work for the community. "In a few cases, however, the life history is different. The nurses...