Animal Life: A First Book of ZoölogyD. Appleton, 1900 - Всего страниц: 329 |
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... animals . To understand how naturally and inevitably all animal form , habit , and life are adapted to the varied circumstances and conditions of animal existence should be the motive of the beginner in this fascinating study . The ...
... animals . To understand how naturally and inevitably all animal form , habit , and life are adapted to the varied circumstances and conditions of animal existence should be the motive of the beginner in this fascinating study . The ...
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... ANIMALS • The simplest animals , or Protozoa , 1. - The animal cell , 2.- What the primitive cell can do , 5. - Amœba , 5. - Paramecium , 9 . -Vorticella , 12. - Marine Protozoa , 15. - Globigerinæ and Radio- laria , 16. - Antiquity of ...
... ANIMALS • The simplest animals , or Protozoa , 1. - The animal cell , 2.- What the primitive cell can do , 5. - Amœba , 5. - Paramecium , 9 . -Vorticella , 12. - Marine Protozoa , 15. - Globigerinæ and Radio- laria , 16. - Antiquity of ...
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... animals , 96. - Duration of life , 101. - Death , 103 . VI . THE PRIMARY CONDITIONS OF ANIMAL LIFE . Primary ... animals and plants , 111. - Living organic matter and inorganic matter , 112 . VII . THE CROWD OF ANIMALS AND THE STRUGGLE ...
... animals , 96. - Duration of life , 101. - Death , 103 . VI . THE PRIMARY CONDITIONS OF ANIMAL LIFE . Primary ... animals and plants , 111. - Living organic matter and inorganic matter , 112 . VII . THE CROWD OF ANIMALS AND THE STRUGGLE ...
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... .- Subordinate realms or provinces , 303. - Faunal areas of the sea , 304 . CLASSIFICATION OF ANIMALS PAGE 201 224 240 257 • 272 307 GLOSSARY · INDEX . • • 313 319 ANIMAL LIFE CHAPTER I THE LIFE OF THE SIMPLEST ANIMALS CONTENTS ix.
... .- Subordinate realms or provinces , 303. - Faunal areas of the sea , 304 . CLASSIFICATION OF ANIMALS PAGE 201 224 240 257 • 272 307 GLOSSARY · INDEX . • • 313 319 ANIMAL LIFE CHAPTER I THE LIFE OF THE SIMPLEST ANIMALS CONTENTS ix.
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... ANIMALS 1. The simplest animals , or Protozoa . The simplest ani- mals are those whose bodies are simplest in structure and which do the things done by all living animals , such as eating , breathing , moving , feeling , and reproducing ...
... ANIMALS 1. The simplest animals , or Protozoa . The simplest ani- mals are those whose bodies are simplest in structure and which do the things done by all living animals , such as eating , breathing , moving , feeling , and reproducing ...
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adaptation adult alimentary canal Amaba ants become bees birds butterfly called cavity chitin CLASS colony color complex animals composed conjugation coral crab crustaceans degeneration differentiation digestion divide ectoderm egg cells existence eyes fauna feed female fish flagella free-swimming function gastrula Globigerinæ habits hatched higher animals host Hydra inclosed increase individuals insects instinct intestine islands jelly-fishes kinds of animals larva larvæ layer live male mals mammals many-celled animals mass medusa mouth opening naturalists nerve nest nucleus ocean one-celled outer oxygen Pandorina papillæ Paramecium parasites parent perform plants polyp 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 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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Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.