 | 1855 - 518 pages
...dead trees ; the tongue is excessively long, round, and fleshy, and is used to obtain its food by bemg laid across the tracks of ants, which stick to a glutinous...destroying deadwood in Labuan, and whose colonies arc extraordinarily numerous. The individual from which the description is taken is a half-grown one,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 520 pages
...dead trees ; the tongue is excessively long, round, and fleshy, and is used to obtain its food by bemg laid across the tracks of ants, which stick to a glutinous...it is provided ; its favourite prey is said to be a olack species of termes, which is the chief agent in destroying deadwood in Labuan, and whose colonies... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 520 pages
...stick to a glutinous secretion with which it is provided; its favourite prey is said to be a olack species of termes, which is the chief agent in destroying...extraordinarily numerous. The individual from which the description is taken is a half-grown one, and was obtained when alive, by Mr. Motley. Having, however,... | |
 | British Museum (Natural History), John Edward Gray - Mammals - 1869 - 416 pages
...little naked callosity) climbs tolerably well among rocks and dead trees. The tongue is exceedingly long, round, and fleshy, and is used to obtain its...Its favourite prey is said to be a black species of Termites. ** Scales horn -coloured ; of the back, in seventeen longitudinal series. Tail as long as... | |
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... laid across the tracks of ants, which stick to a glutinous secretion with which it is provided ; its favourite prey is said to be a black species of Termes, which is the chief agent in destroying dead-wood in Labuan, and whose colonies are extraordinarily... 