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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... Living ladders and their structure - Method of crossing streams - Tenacity of life - A decapitated Ant - Mode of biting - Description of the insect - Curious nest of a Brazilian Wasp - Weight of the nest and method of attachment ...
... Living ladders and their structure - Method of crossing streams - Tenacity of life - A decapitated Ant - Mode of biting - Description of the insect - Curious nest of a Brazilian Wasp - Weight of the nest and method of attachment ...
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... living rock , instead of being built up by successive series of stones or bricks , there is nothing in them which differs from the ordinary dwellings raised by builders , so that in reality they have little in common with the rock ...
... living rock , instead of being built up by successive series of stones or bricks , there is nothing in them which differs from the ordinary dwellings raised by builders , so that in reality they have little in common with the rock ...
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... living Mole without injuring it is not an easy task , and when it is caught , the duty of supplying it with food entails so severe a labour , and necessitates such very early rising , that no one can hope for success who does not ...
... living Mole without injuring it is not an easy task , and when it is caught , the duty of supplying it with food entails so severe a labour , and necessitates such very early rising , that no one can hope for success who does not ...
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... living form , but have been discovered in the fossil skeletons of animals long extinct . I have given much space to the Mole on account of its many claims to our notice . Had the creature been a rare and costly inhabitant of the tropics ...
... living form , but have been discovered in the fossil skeletons of animals long extinct . I have given much space to the Mole on account of its many claims to our notice . Had the creature been a rare and costly inhabitant of the tropics ...
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... living state , except by those who are in the habit of traversing the country by night in search of specimens . Dead Shrews are common enough , having probably been killed by predatory animals , but left un- eaten on the ground , in ...
... living state , except by those who are in the habit of traversing the country by night in search of specimens . Dead Shrews are common enough , having probably been killed by predatory animals , but left un- eaten on the ground , in ...
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