Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals, Classed According to Their Principle of ConstructionLongmans, Green and Company, 1866 - 632 páginas |
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... hole or crevice in which they take up their residence , and which can scarcely be called a home . No domestic associations hang around the habitation of the earth - dweller . The cave in which he dwells , or rather , in which he sleeps ...
... hole or crevice in which they take up their residence , and which can scarcely be called a home . No domestic associations hang around the habitation of the earth - dweller . The cave in which he dwells , or rather , in which he sleeps ...
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... hole , and hang a skin on them ; but it is only on very wet and windy days that he will take so much trouble . All subterranean dwellings are not of this simple nature . The underground palaces of India are wonderful examples of ...
... hole , and hang a skin on them ; but it is only on very wet and windy days that he will take so much trouble . All subterranean dwellings are not of this simple nature . The underground palaces of India are wonderful examples of ...
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... hole leading into the tunnel . But let us strike into one of the large tunnels , as any mole - catcher will teach us , and follow it up until we come to the real abode of the animal . A section of this extraordinary habitation is given ...
... hole leading into the tunnel . But let us strike into one of the large tunnels , as any mole - catcher will teach us , and follow it up until we come to the real abode of the animal . A section of this extraordinary habitation is given ...
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... hole descends almost perpendicularly for nearly a yard , and then makes several devious windings in a slightly ascending direction . Two or three supplementary gal- leries are driven from the principal burrow , and by means of them the ...
... hole descends almost perpendicularly for nearly a yard , and then makes several devious windings in a slightly ascending direction . Two or three supplementary gal- leries are driven from the principal burrow , and by means of them the ...
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... hole about a yard . in depth . Many of these little burrows are made and left unoc- cupied . Digging out Woodchucks is a favourite amusement with boys . OUR next example is the CANADA POUCHED RAT ( Pseudostoma bursarius ) , sometimes ...
... hole about a yard . in depth . Many of these little burrows are made and left unoc- cupied . Digging out Woodchucks is a favourite amusement with boys . OUR next example is the CANADA POUCHED RAT ( Pseudostoma bursarius ) , sometimes ...
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