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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... means used to procure it - Quadrupedal engineering - The dam of the Beaver - Erroneous ideas of the dam - How the Beaver cuts timber - The Beaver in the Zoological Gardens - Theories respecting the Beaver's dam - How the timber is ...
... means used to procure it - Quadrupedal engineering - The dam of the Beaver - Erroneous ideas of the dam - How the Beaver cuts timber - The Beaver in the Zoological Gardens - Theories respecting the Beaver's dam - How the timber is ...
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... means of fans and evaporating water . Human habitations , however , do not come within the scope of the present work , which is restricted to those homes that are constructed without the aid of hands , and are planned , not by reason ...
... means of fans and evaporating water . Human habitations , however , do not come within the scope of the present work , which is restricted to those homes that are constructed without the aid of hands , and are planned , not by reason ...
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... , and their powerful muscles giving the needful force . These limbs are essentially used for digging , and are but little employed as means of locomotion . But the Fox is. " EARTH " OF THE FOX . A PRAIRIE DOG TOWN . 16 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS .
... , and their powerful muscles giving the needful force . These limbs are essentially used for digging , and are but little employed as means of locomotion . But the Fox is. " EARTH " OF THE FOX . A PRAIRIE DOG TOWN . 16 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS .
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... means of locomotion . But the Fox is an admirable runner , as any hunter can avouch , and its fore limbs are formed for speed and endurance , their length enduing them with the one quality , and their muscular lightness with the other ...
... means of locomotion . But the Fox is an admirable runner , as any hunter can avouch , and its fore limbs are formed for speed and endurance , their length enduing them with the one quality , and their muscular lightness with the other ...
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... means so complicated as that of the Arctic species . Whenever it can , the Fox avoids the labour of burrowing , and avails itself of the deserted home of a badger , or even a rabbit . In the former case there is very little to be done ...
... means so complicated as that of the Arctic species . Whenever it can , the Fox avoids the labour of burrowing , and avails itself of the deserted home of a badger , or even a rabbit . In the former case there is very little to be done ...
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