Animal Life: A First Book of ZoölogyD. Appleton, 1900 - Всего страниц: 329 |
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... advantage gained . The bands of wolves which hunted the buffalo show the advantage of mutual help in aggression as well as in pro- tection . In this banding together of wolves there is active co - operation among individuals to obtain a ...
... advantage gained . The bands of wolves which hunted the buffalo show the advantage of mutual help in aggression as well as in pro- tection . In this banding together of wolves there is active co - operation among individuals to obtain a ...
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... advantage of a gregarious and mutually helpful habit . The pelicans sometimes go fishing in great bands , and , after having chosen an appro- priate place near the shore , they form a wide half - circle facing the shore , and narrow it ...
... advantage of a gregarious and mutually helpful habit . The pelicans sometimes go fishing in great bands , and , after having chosen an appro- priate place near the shore , they form a wide half - circle facing the shore , and narrow it ...
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... Advantages of communal life . The advantages of communal or social life , of co - operation and mutual aid , are real . The animals that have adopted such a life are among the most successful of all animals in the struggle for exist ...
... Advantages of communal life . The advantages of communal or social life , of co - operation and mutual aid , are real . The animals that have adopted such a life are among the most successful of all animals in the struggle for exist ...
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... advantages are , how- ever , in some degree balanced by the fact that mutual help brings mutual dependence . The community or society can accomplish greater things than the solitary individuals , but co - operation limits freedom , and ...
... advantages are , how- ever , in some degree balanced by the fact that mutual help brings mutual dependence . The community or society can accomplish greater things than the solitary individuals , but co - operation limits freedom , and ...
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... advantage . In some cases this mutual advantage is obvious . This kind of association is called commensalism or symbiosis . The term commensalism may be used to denote a condition where the two animals are not so intimately associated ...
... advantage . In some cases this mutual advantage is obvious . This kind of association is called commensalism or symbiosis . The term commensalism may be used to denote a condition where the two animals are not so intimately associated ...
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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.