Animal Life: A First Book of ZoölogyD. Appleton, 1900 - Всего страниц: 329 |
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... ants , 155. - Other communal insects , 158. - Gregariousness and mutual aid , 163. - Division of labor and basis of communal life , 168. - Advantages of communal life , 170 . X. - COMMENSALISM AND SYMBIOSIS Association between animals ...
... ants , 155. - Other communal insects , 158. - Gregariousness and mutual aid , 163. - Division of labor and basis of communal life , 168. - Advantages of communal life , 170 . X. - COMMENSALISM AND SYMBIOSIS Association between animals ...
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... Among certain species of white ants the females grow to be five or six inches long , while the males do not exceed half an inch in length . In the in case of some of the parasitic worms which live. THE MULTIPLICATION OF ANIMALS AND SEX 59.
... Among certain species of white ants the females grow to be five or six inches long , while the males do not exceed half an inch in length . In the in case of some of the parasitic worms which live. THE MULTIPLICATION OF ANIMALS AND SEX 59.
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... ant , which after it is full grown does nothing but lie in a cell and lay eggs , produces eighty thousand eggs a day steadily for several months . A large codfish was found on dissection to contain about eight million eggs . If we ...
... ant , which after it is full grown does nothing but lie in a cell and lay eggs , produces eighty thousand eggs a day steadily for several months . A large codfish was found on dissection to contain about eight million eggs . If we ...
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... ants , bees , and wasps , and all the flies and beetles . On the other hand , many insects do not show metamorphosis , but , like the birds , are hatched from the egg in a condition plainly resembling the parents . A grasshopper ( Fig ...
... ants , bees , and wasps , and all the flies and beetles . On the other hand , many insects do not show metamorphosis , but , like the birds , are hatched from the egg in a condition plainly resembling the parents . A grasshopper ( Fig ...
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... ant - eater , for example , has a curious , long sticky tongue which it thrusts forth from its cylindrical snout deep into the recesses of the ant- hill , bringing it out with its sticky surface covered with ants . Animals which feed on ...
... ant - eater , for example , has a curious , long sticky tongue which it thrusts forth from its cylindrical snout deep into the recesses of the ant- hill , bringing it out with its sticky surface covered with ants . Animals which feed on ...
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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.