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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... known mole - hills , which contain as much earth as would make a heap twelve feet in height and twenty feet in diameter , were a man to be the workman instead of the Mole . On looking over the list of burrowing mammalia , the observer ...
... known mole - hills , which contain as much earth as would make a heap twelve feet in height and twenty feet in diameter , were a man to be the workman instead of the Mole . On looking over the list of burrowing mammalia , the observer ...
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... known Musk Rat of India belongs also to this odoriferous family . THE FOX is a well - known burrower , its earth ' being familiar to many by sight , and to all by name . Few persons , who do not know the history of the Fox , would ...
... known Musk Rat of India belongs also to this odoriferous family . THE FOX is a well - known burrower , its earth ' being familiar to many by sight , and to all by name . Few persons , who do not know the history of the Fox , would ...
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... WISH - TON - WISH , but it is usually known by the name of Prairie Dog , though it is a rodent and not a carnivorous animal . The reason of its popular name FWKEYL lies in the short yelping sound which it is 22 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS .
... WISH - TON - WISH , but it is usually known by the name of Prairie Dog , though it is a rodent and not a carnivorous animal . The reason of its popular name FWKEYL lies in the short yelping sound which it is 22 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS .
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... known cry , all the Prairie Dogs within reach repeat the call , and leap into their burrows . Their curiosity , however , is irrepressible , and scarcely have their feet vanished from sight , than their heads are seen cautiously ...
... known cry , all the Prairie Dogs within reach repeat the call , and leap into their burrows . Their curiosity , however , is irrepressible , and scarcely have their feet vanished from sight , than their heads are seen cautiously ...
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... known burrower of America . On account of its whistling cry , it is called Siffleur by the French ; and its peculiar form has earned for it the somewhat inappropriate title of GROUND HOG . The burrow of the Woodchuck is rather long ...
... known burrower of America . On account of its whistling cry , it is called Siffleur by the French ; and its peculiar form has earned for it the somewhat inappropriate title of GROUND HOG . The burrow of the Woodchuck is rather long ...
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