 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 524 pages
...Chatham Island, I could not imagine what animal travelled so methodically along the well-chosen tracks. Near the springs it was a curious spectacle to behold...frequency of these visits. The animal probably regulates mem according to the nature of the food which it has consumed. It is however certain that tortoises... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...to Mr. Darwin, the inhabitants say, that each visitor stays three or four days in the neighborhood of the water, and then returns to the lower country...differed in their accounts respecting the frequency of those visits. Mr. Darwin thinks that the animal probably regulates them according to the nature of... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 716 pages
...eyes, and greedily swallows great mouthfuls, at the rate of about ten in a minute. The inhabitants say each animal stays three or four days in the neighbourhood...then returns to the lower country; but they differed respecting the frequency of these visits. The animal probably regulates them according to the nature... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...to Mr. Darwin, the inhabitants say, that each visitor stays three or four days in the neighborhood of the water, and then returns to the lower country...differed in their accounts respecting the frequency of those visits. Mr. Darwin thinks that the animal probably regulates them according to the nature of... | |
 | Literature - 1851 - 640 pages
...According to Mr. Darwin, the inhabitants say that each visitor stays three or four days in the neighborhood of the water, and then returns to the lower country...differed in their accounts respecting the frequency of those visits. Mr. Darwin thinks that the animal probably regulates them according to the nature of... | |
 | William John Broderip - Animal behavior - 1852 - 446 pages
...at the rate of about ten in a minute. According to Mr. Darwin, the inhabitants say that each visitor stays three or four days in the neighbourhood of the...differed in their accounts respecting the frequency of those visits. Mr. Darwin thinks that the animal probably regulates them according to the nature of... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1855 - 564 pages
...eyes, and greedily swallows great mouthfuls, at the rate of about ten in a minute. The inhabitants say each animal stays three or four days in the neighbourhood...the water, and then returns to the lower country. .... For some time after a visit to the springs, the urinary bladder of these animals is distended... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1855 - 566 pages
...eyes, and greedily swallows great mouthful*, at the rate of about ten in a minute. The inhabitants say each animal stays three or four days in the neighbourhood of the water, a^d then returns to the lower country For some time after a visit to the springs, the urinary bladder... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 pages
...eyes, and greedily swallows great mouthfuls, at the rate of about ten in a minute, The inhabitants say each animal stays three or four days in the neighbourhood...differed in their accounts respecting the frequency of their visits. The animal, probably, regulates them according to the nature of the food which it has... | |
 | G. Garratt - Instinct - 1862 - 462 pages
...eyes, and greedily swallows great mouthfuls, at the rate of about ten in a minute. The inhabitants say each animal stays three or four days in the neighbourhood of the water .... The tortoises, when moving towards any definite point, travel by night and day, and arrive at... | |
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... eyes, and greedily swallows great mouthfuls, at the rate of about ten in a minute. The inhabitants say each animal stays three or four days in the... 
