Animal Life: A First Book of ZoölogyD. Appleton, 1900 - Всего страниц: 329 |
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... known to us ; we can not see them with the unaided eye , and yet there are thousands of different kinds of them , and they may be found wherever there is water . In a glass of water taken from a stagnant pool there is a host of animals ...
... known to us ; we can not see them with the unaided eye , and yet there are thousands of different kinds of them , and they may be found wherever there is water . In a glass of water taken from a stagnant pool there is a host of animals ...
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... known ocean fishes , like the herring and cod , which we know to live there in enormous numbers ; the seals and sea lions , the whales and porpoises , those fish - like animals which are really more like land animals than like the true ...
... known ocean fishes , like the herring and cod , which we know to live there in enormous numbers ; the seals and sea lions , the whales and porpoises , those fish - like animals which are really more like land animals than like the true ...
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... known . In standing or slowly flowing water , Spongilla grows erect and branching , like a shrub or miniature tree ; in swift water it grows low and spreading , forming a sort of mat over the surface to which it is attached ...
... known . In standing or slowly flowing water , Spongilla grows erect and branching , like a shrub or miniature tree ; in swift water it grows low and spreading , forming a sort of mat over the surface to which it is attached ...
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... - swimming life . These are the beautiful animals commonly known as jelly - fishes . The medusæ or jelly - fishes produce special reproductive cells , a single medusa producing only one kind of THE LIFE OF THE SLIGHTLY COMPLEX ANIMALS 41.
... - swimming life . These are the beautiful animals commonly known as jelly - fishes . The medusæ or jelly - fishes produce special reproductive cells , a single medusa producing only one kind of THE LIFE OF THE SLIGHTLY COMPLEX ANIMALS 41.
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... known , and their skeletons offer much variety in structure and appearance . Brain coral , organ - pipe coral ( Fig . 24 ) , the well - known red coral from Italy and Sicily , used as jewelry , and the sea pens and sea fans are among ...
... known , and their skeletons offer much variety in structure and appearance . Brain coral , organ - pipe coral ( Fig . 24 ) , the well - known red coral from Italy and Sicily , used as jewelry , and the sea pens and sea fans are among ...
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adaptation adult alimentary canal Amaba ants artificial selection becomes bees beetles birds body wall breathing butterfly called cavity chitin CLASS colony color complex animals composed conjugation crab differentiation digestion divide division of labor ectoderm egg cells embryo existence feed female fertilized fish flagella free-swimming function gastrula Globigerinæ habits hatched higher animals honey-bee Hydra inclosed increase insects instinct intestine jelly-fishes kinds of animals larva larvæ layer live male mals mammals many-celled animals mass medusæ metamorphosis naturalists nerve nest nucleus ocean one-celled organs outer oxygen Pandorina papillæ Paramecium parasites parent perform plant-lice plants polyp prey primitive processes produced protoplasm Protozoa pseudopods pupa queen Radiolaria reproductive cells Sacculina sea-anemone shell simple simplest animals single cell special sense species sperm cells spherical sponge stage structure substance surface swimming tentacles tion tissues 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.