The Magic Zoo: The Natural History of Fabulous Animals |
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... ant of great size - bigger than a fox , though not so big as a dog . Some specimens which were caught are kept in the palace of the Persian king . As they burrow underground these animals throw up the sand in heaps , just as our own ants ...
... ant of great size - bigger than a fox , though not so big as a dog . Some specimens which were caught are kept in the palace of the Persian king . As they burrow underground these animals throw up the sand in heaps , just as our own ants ...
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... ant . This would have then been confirmed for them by the name given to the gold dust recovered from their diggings . Valentine Ball , writing in 1884 , thought that these ' ants ' were more likely to have been the fierce Tibetan ...
... ant . This would have then been confirmed for them by the name given to the gold dust recovered from their diggings . Valentine Ball , writing in 1884 , thought that these ' ants ' were more likely to have been the fierce Tibetan ...
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... ant ( shirgol ) . But he also notes that there are references to giant ants in the Mongolian region in Chinese sources . These occur in two works which I mentioned earlier in the chapter on the griffin : they are Ch'u Tz and Shan Hai ...
... ant ( shirgol ) . But he also notes that there are references to giant ants in the Mongolian region in Chinese sources . These occur in two works which I mentioned earlier in the chapter on the griffin : they are Ch'u Tz and Shan Hai ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Animals and Man 1 Animals and Man 74 | 5 |
Shaman into Scientist ΙΟ | 10 |
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