 They came to the edge and tried hard to get over, but it did not occur to them to. push the paper bridge, though the distance was only about onethird of an inch, and they might easily have done so. After trying for about a quarter of an hour they gave...  Animal Behaviour - Página 212por Conwy Lloyd Morgan - 1908 - 344 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1877 - 822 páginas
...degrees a number of friends came to help her. I then, when about twenty-five ants were so engaged, moved the little paper bridge slightly, so as to leave...one-eighth of an inch wide. The result was the same. I repeated this twice. Again I placed particles of food close to and directly over the nest, but connected... | |
 | 1877 - 938 páginas
...degrees a number of friends came to help her. I then, when about twenty-five ants were so engagedmoved the little paper bridge slightly, so as to leave a...one-eighth of an inch wide. The result was the same. I repeated this twice. Again I placed particles of food close to and directly over the nest, but connected... | |
 | John Bascom - 1878 - 310 páginas
...distance was only about one-third of an inch, and they might easily have done so. * * * Thinking that the paper was a substance to which they were not accustomed,...one-eighth of an inch wide. The result was the same."* He strove to induce them to build a bridge of mould ; to drop the food they were carrying, or themselves... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1879 - 250 páginas
...degrees a number of friends came to help her. I then, when about twenty-five ants were so engaged, moved the little paper bridge slightly, so as to leave...one-eighth of an inch wide. The result was the same. I repeated this twice. Again I placed particles of food close to and directly over the nest, but connected... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1879 - 696 páginas
...degrees a number of friends came to help her. I then, when about twenty-five ants were so engaged, moved the little paper bridge slightly, so as to leave...one-eighth of an inch wide. The result was the same. I repeated this twice. Again I placed particles of food close to and directly over the nest, but connected... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1879 - 698 páginas
...degrees a number of friends came to help her. I then, when about twenty-five ants were so engaged, moved the little paper bridge slightly, so as to leave...one-eighth of an inch wide. The result was the same. I repeated this twice. Again I placed particles of food close to and directly over the nest, but connected... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1879 - 724 páginas
...degrees a number of friends came to help her. I then, when about twenty-five ants were so engaged, moved the little paper bridge slightly, so as to leave...one-eighth of an inch wide. The result was the same. I repeated this twice. Again I placed particles of food close to and directly over the nest, but connected... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1882 - 526 páginas
...do so ; but it did not occur to them to push the paper bridge, though the distance was only about ^ inch, and they might easily have done so. After trying...not accustomed, I tried the same with a bit of straw 1 inch long and £ inch wide. The result was the same. I repeated this more than once. Again I suspended... | |
 | John Lubbock (1st baron Avebury.) - 1882 - 244 páginas
...leave a chasm just so wide that the ants could not reach across. They came and tried hard to do so ; but it did not occur to them to push the paper bridge,...and returned home. This I repeated several times. 4. Then, thinking that paper was a substance to which they were not accustomed, I tried the same with... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 524 páginas
...leave a chasm just so wide that the ants could not reach across. They came and tried hard to do so; but it did not occur to them to push the paper bridge,...one-eighth of an inch wide. The result was the same. I repeated this more than once. Again, I suspended some honey over a nest of yellow ants, at a height... | |
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