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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... present system 326 · CHAPTER XVIII . BUILDING INSECTS . The TERMITE , or WHITE ANT - General habits of the insect - African Termite and their homes - Terinites as articles of food - Indian Termites - Account of their proceedings ...
... present system 326 · CHAPTER XVIII . BUILDING INSECTS . The TERMITE , or WHITE ANT - General habits of the insect - African Termite and their homes - Terinites as articles of food - Indian Termites - Account of their proceedings ...
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... present emergency requires . Such debased tribes of humanity will occasionally adapt to their current circumstances the hole or crevice in which they take up their residence , and which can scarcely be called a home . No domestic ...
... present emergency requires . Such debased tribes of humanity will occasionally adapt to their current circumstances the hole or crevice in which they take up their residence , and which can scarcely be called a home . No domestic ...
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... present work , which is restricted to those homes that are constructed without the aid of hands , and are planned , not by reason , but by instinct . We pass , therefore , from the handiwork of man to those dwellings which are ...
... present work , which is restricted to those homes that are constructed without the aid of hands , and are planned , not by reason , but by instinct . We pass , therefore , from the handiwork of man to those dwellings which are ...
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... present nothing particularly worthy of notice . They are the shafts through which the quadrupedal miner ejects the materials which it has scooped out , as it drives its many tunnels through the soil , and if they be carefully opened ...
... present nothing particularly worthy of notice . They are the shafts through which the quadrupedal miner ejects the materials which it has scooped out , as it drives its many tunnels through the soil , and if they be carefully opened ...
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... present be surmised is , that the rightful owner of such a stronghold may rest safely in his middle chamber , tasting the reward of repose which sweetens labour , and that in case of alarm , he might escape through either of the many ...
... present be surmised is , that the rightful owner of such a stronghold may rest safely in his middle chamber , tasting the reward of repose which sweetens labour , and that in case of alarm , he might escape through either of the many ...
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