 | Charles Darwin - 1996 - Страниц: 382
...in the pericardium, which is described as being best. The tortoises, when purposely moving towards any point, travel by night and day, and arrive at...at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles a day — allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. During... | |
 | Gregory McNamee, Luis Alberto Urrea - 1997 - Страниц: 164
...in the pericardium, which is described as being best. The tortoises, when purposely moving towards any point, travel by night and day, and arrive at...at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles a day, — allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. During... | |
 | Justin Gerlach - 1998 - Страниц: 51
...in the pericardium, which is described as being best. The tortoises, when purposely moving towards any point, travel by night and day, and arrive at...at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles a day - allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. During... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 2002 - Страниц: 1160
...in the pericardium, which is described as being best. The tortoises, when purposely moving towards omes intent on sexual attachments, which transport...for a time his ordinary solemn deportment. While I 360 yards in the hour, or four miles a day,— allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. During... | |
 | Peter Young - 2003 - Страниц: 212
...Darwin in his journal again: The tortoises, when moving towards any definite point, travel by night, and arrive at their journey's end much sooner than would be expected. The inhabitants, from observations on marked individuals, consider that they The concave plastron of the male enables him... | |
 | Discovery - 2005 - Страниц: 40
...animal stays three or four days in the neighborhood of the water, and then returns to the lower country. They travel a distance of about eight miles in two or three days. One large tortoise ... walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles... | |
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The tortoises, when purposely moving towards any point, travel by night and day, and arrive at their journey's end much sooner than would be expected. 
