Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals, Classed According to Their Principle of Construction |
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... 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 constructed with feet or jaws or beaks , and which are never marred ...
... 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 constructed with feet or jaws or beaks , and which are never marred ...
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... constructed by the animal . It may be well adapted to a solitary individual , but it is not at all suited for a family , for whom a more extended nursery must be provided . The nursery is much simpler than the habitation , consisting ...
... constructed by the animal . It may be well adapted to a solitary individual , but it is not at all suited for a family , for whom a more extended nursery must be provided . The nursery is much simpler than the habitation , consisting ...
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... constructed expressly for the purpose , and is placed in a small globular chamber about eight inches in diameter . The bed on which the mother and her young repose is made of dried herbage and fur plucked from the body . This chamber is ...
... constructed expressly for the purpose , and is placed in a small globular chamber about eight inches in diameter . The bed on which the mother and her young repose is made of dried herbage and fur plucked from the body . This chamber is ...
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... constructed , is often honeycombed by the multitudes of these bivalves that inhabit it . Some of the enormous stones which were employed in building the break- water are now much wasted by the holes made in them by the Saxicava . As is ...
... constructed , is often honeycombed by the multitudes of these bivalves that inhabit it . Some of the enormous stones which were employed in building the break- water are now much wasted by the holes made in them by the Saxicava . As is ...
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... inch in length , but it is a curiously - constructed being ; and were it made on a larger scale , would be a really formidable species . Its jaws are long , sharply pointed , and remarkably stout at 112 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS .
... inch in length , but it is a curiously - constructed being ; and were it made on a larger scale , would be a really formidable species . Its jaws are long , sharply pointed , and remarkably stout at 112 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS .
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