 ... glades or prairies, in search of strawberries, and subsequently of dewberries, blackberries and grasshoppers, thus obtaining abundant food, and enjoying the beneficial influence of the sun's rays. They roll themselves in deserted ants' nests, to clear...  The Wilson Bulletin - Стр. 401916Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | John James Audubon - 1832 - Страниц: 564
...They roll themselves in deserted ants' nests, to clear their growing feathers of the loose scales, and prevent ticks and other vermin from attacking them, these insects being unable to bear the odour of the earth in which ants have been. The young Turkeys now advance rapidly in growth, and in... | |
 | Samuel Roper - 1832 - Страниц: 178
...roll themselves in deserted ant's nests to clear their growing feathers from the loose scales, and prevent ticks and other vermin from attacking them, these insects being unable to bear the odour of the earth in which ants have been. While at Henderson, on the Ohio, I had, among many other... | |
 | Arthur Cleveland Bent - 1932 - Страниц: 618
...They roll themselves in deserted ants' nests to clear their growing feathers of the loose scales and prevent ticks and other vermin from attacking them, these insects being unable to bear the odor of the earth in which ants have been. The young Turkeys now advance rapidly in growth and In the month... | |
 | Gloria A. Tveten - 2004 - Страниц: 268
...ant nests and suggested they were doing so "to clear their growing feathers of the loose scales and prevent ticks and other vermin from attacking them, these insects being unable to bear the odor of the earth in which the ants have been." In 1876, another American ornithologist, Abbott Frazar, described... | |
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