 | Popular history - 1843 - Страниц: 434
...respect, one strange anomaly, that, when frightened, it will not enter the water. " From this cause, it is easy to drive these Lizards down to any little...will sooner allow a person to catch hold of their tail, than jump into the water. They do not seem to have any notion of biting; but when much frightened,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1846 - Страниц: 716
...its aquatic habits; yet there is in this respect one strange anomaly, namely, that when frightened it will not enter the water. Hence it is easy to drive...frightened they squirt a drop of fluid from each nostril. I threw one several times as far as I could into a deep pool left by the retiring tide, but it invariably... | |
 | William John Broderip - 1847 - Страниц: 434
...; namely, that when frightened it will not enter the water. From this cause it is easy to drive the lizards down to any little point overhanging the sea,...will sooner allow a person to catch hold of their tail than jump into the water. They do not seem to have any notion of biting ; but when much frightened... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1859 - Страниц: 832
...that, when frightened, it will not enter the water. THE AMBLYRHTNCUrS CKIMTATUS. " From this cause it is easy to drive these lizards down to any little...will sooner allow a person to catch hold of their tail than jump into the water. They do not seem to have any notion of biting ; but when much frightened,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1863 - Страниц: 860
...that, when frightened, it will not enter the water. TIUJ AMBLYBHISCHU3 CIUSTATUS. " From this cause it is easy to drive these lizards down to any little point overhanging thesea, where they will sooner allow a person to catch hold of their tail than jump into the water.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1873 - Страниц: 552
...aquatic habits ; yet there is in this respect one strange anomaly, namely, that when frightened it will not enter the water. Hence it is easy to drive...do not seem to have any notion of biting ; but when mucii frightened they squirt a drop of fluid from each nostril. I threw one several times as far as... | |
 | Louis Guillaume Figuier - 1873 - Страниц: 772
...respect one strange anomaly, namely, that when frightened it will not enter the water. From this cause, it is easy to drive these lizards down to any little...will sooner allow a person to catch hold of their tail than jump into the water. They do not seem to have any notion of biting ; but when much frightened... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1876 - Страниц: 586
...aquatic habits ; yet there is in this respect one strange anonulr. namely, that when frightened it will not enter the water. Hence it is easy to drive...their tails than jump into the water. They do not stem to have any notion of biting ; but when much frightened they squirt a drop of fluid from each... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1876 - Страниц: 574
...aquatic habits ; yet there is in this respect one strange anomaly, namely, that when frightened it will not enter the water. Hence it is easy to drive...sea, where they will sooner allow a person to catch .iold of their tails than jump into the water. They do not seem to have any notion of biting ; but... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - Страниц: 886
...respect one strange anomaly, namely, that when frightened it will not enter the water. From this cause, it is easy to drive these lizards down to any little...will sooner allow a person to catch hold of their tail than jump into the water. They do not seem to have any notion of biting ; but when much frightened... | |
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The nature of this lizard's food, as well as the structure of its tail and feet, and the fact of its having been seen voluntarily swimming out at sea, absolutely prove its aquatic habits; yet there is in this respect one strange anomaly, namely, that... 
