Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals, Classed According to Their Principle of Construction |
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... similar places of refuge . Therefore to keep an old experienced Fox above ground is a task which needs great skill and considerable endurance , for he is by no means above availing himself of clefts in rocks , should the country be of a ...
... similar places of refuge . Therefore to keep an old experienced Fox above ground is a task which needs great skill and considerable endurance , for he is by no means above availing himself of clefts in rocks , should the country be of a ...
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... similar scene is enacted . Warned by the well - known cry , all the Prairie Dogs within reach repeat the call , and leap into their burrows . Their curiosity , however , is irrepressible , and scarcely have their feet vanished from ...
... similar scene is enacted . Warned by the well - known cry , all the Prairie Dogs within reach repeat the call , and leap into their burrows . Their curiosity , however , is irrepressible , and scarcely have their feet vanished from ...
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... to them the feelings which he himself would experience in similar situations ; but he who can divest himself , for the nonce , of his superiority , and conjecture the thoughts which would enter the limited . 23 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS .
... to them the feelings which he himself would experience in similar situations ; but he who can divest himself , for the nonce , of his superiority , and conjecture the thoughts which would enter the limited . 23 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS .
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... similar phenomenon may be observed in many of the hibernating animals , but in the Bear it is more remarkable from the fact that she has not only to support her own existence , but to impart nourishment to her offspring . It is true ...
... similar phenomenon may be observed in many of the hibernating animals , but in the Bear it is more remarkable from the fact that she has not only to support her own existence , but to impart nourishment to her offspring . It is true ...
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... similar situa- tions , placing its rude platform of sticks within the burrow ; and the common SHELDRAKE ( Tadorna Vulpanser ) possesses the same habit . The nest of the last - mentioned bird is always placed close to the water , so that ...
... similar situa- tions , placing its rude platform of sticks within the burrow ; and the common SHELDRAKE ( Tadorna Vulpanser ) possesses the same habit . The nest of the last - mentioned bird is always placed close to the water , so that ...
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