A History of Crustacea: Recent Malacostraca

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K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1893 - 466 páginas
Author's experiences bartending in Red Hook (Brooklyn), New York.
 

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Página 155 - I think this is as curious a case of instinct as ever I heard of, and likewise of adaptation in structure between two objects apparently so remote from each other in the scheme of nature, as a crab and a cocoa-nut tree.
Página 154 - Liesk assures me that he has repeatedly seen this effected. The crab begins by tearing the husk, fibre by fibre, and always from that end under which the three eye-holes are situated ; when this is completed, the crab commences hammering with its heavy claws on one of the eye-holes till an opening is made.

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