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" A nest was made near one of our tramways, and to get to the trees the ants had to cross the rails, over which the waggons were continually passing and repassing. Every time they came along a number of ants were crushed to death. They persevered in crossing... "
Animal intelligence (treatise). - Página 138
por George John Romanes - 1882 - 520 páginas
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The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of ...

Thomas Belt - 1874 - 452 páginas
...conclude this long account of the leaf-cutting ants with one more instance of their reasoning powers. A nest was made near one of our tramways, and to get...set to work making fresh tunnels underneath them. Apparently an order oa had gone forth, or a general understanding been come to, that the rails were...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volumen19

1881 - 904 páginas
...for some time, but at last set to work and tunneled underneath each rail. One day, when the wagons were not running, I stopped up the tunnels with stones...cross the rails, but set to work making fresh tunnels beneath them. Such, then, are some of the more well-established facts regarding the intelligence of...
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Quarterly Journal of Science, and Annals of Mining, Metallurgy ..., Volumen19

James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1882 - 784 páginas
...indeed, the power of invention. The following incident is quoted from the well-known work of Belt: — "A nest was made near one of our tramways, and to...set to work making fresh tunnels underneath them." Prof. Leuckart, it is stated, " placed round the trunk of a tree which was visited by ants, as pasture...
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Mental Evolution in Man: Origin of Human Faculty

George John Romanes - 1888 - 488 páginas
...the following, which is quoted from Mr. Belt, whose competency as an observer no one can dispute. " A nest was made near one of our tramways, and to get...set to work making fresh tunnels underneath them." * See Animal fntelligetue, pp. 465, 466. t Of course the words "general idea" and "concept " here are...
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The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of ...

Thomas Belt - 1888 - 454 páginas
...they came along a number of ants were crushed to death. They persevered in crossing for several days, but at last set .to work and tunnelled underneath...set to work making fresh tunnels underneath them. Apparently an order had gone forth, or a general understanding been come to, that, the rails were not...
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The Midland Naturalist: The Journal of the "Midland Union of ..., Volúmenes11-12

Edward W. Badger, William Hillhouse - 1888 - 660 páginas
...they came along a number of ants were crushed to death. They persevered in crossing for several days, but at last set to work and tunnelled underneath each...from the nest, they would not cross the rails, but bet to work making fresh tunnels underneath them. Apparently an order had gone forth, or a general...
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The Evolution of General Ideas

Théodule Ribot, Frances Alice Welby - 1899 - 260 páginas
...crossing for some time, but at last set to work and tunnelled underneath each rail. One day, when the cars were not running, I stopped up the tunnels with stones;...set to work making fresh tunnels underneath them." Another observer, Dr. Ellendorf, who has carefully studied the ants of Central America, recounts a...
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The Romance of the Animal World: Interesting Descriptions of the Strange ...

Edmund Selous - 1905 - 382 páginas
...which the waggons were continually passing and repassing. Every time they came along, a number 116 of ants were crushed to death. They persevered in...set to work making fresh tunnels underneath them. Apparently an order had gone forth, or a general understanding been come to, that the rails were not...
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Outing, Volumen45

1905 - 796 páginas
...persevered in crossing for some time, but at last set to work and tunneled underneath each rail One day I stopped up the tunnels with stones; but although...not cross the rails, but set to work making fresh runnels underneath them." Sir" John Lubbock says that the bees of the genus Osmia arrange their cells...
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Outing and the Wheelman, Volumen45

1905 - 838 páginas
...crossing for some time, but at last set to work and tunneled underneath each rail. One day I stopped up_ the tunnels with stones: but although great numbers...set to work making fresh tunnels underneath them." Sir John Lubbock says that the bees of the genus Osmia arrange their cells in a row, and that the cells...
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