 | Thomas Belt - 1874 - 442 sider
...they came along a number of ants were crushed to death. They persevered in crossing for some time, but at last set to work and tunnelled underneath each...from the nest, they would not cross the rails, but set to work making fresh tunnels underneath them. Apparently an order 84 THE NATURALIST IN NICARAGUA.... | |
 | 1881 - 904 sider
...for some time, but at last set to work and tunneled underneath each rail. One day, when the wagons were not running, I stopped up the tunnels with stones...from the nest, they would not cross the rails, but set to work making fresh tunnels beneath them. Such, then, are some of the more well-established facts... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1882 - 784 sider
...they came along a number of ants were crushed to death. They persevered in crossing for some time, but at last set to work and tunnelled underneath each...from the nest, they would not cross the rails, but set to work making fresh tunnels underneath them." Prof. Leuckart, it is stated, " placed round the... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1882 - 550 sider
...they came along a number of ants were crushed to death. They persevered in crossing for some time, but at last set to work and tunnelled underneath each...from the nest, they would not cross the rails, but set to work making fresh tunnels underneath them. Anatomy and Physiology of Nerve-centres and Sense-organs.... | |
 | Thomas Belt - 1888 - 454 sider
...shall conclude this long account of the leaf-cutting ants with an instance of their reasoning powers. A nest was made near one of our tramways, and to get...from the nest, they would not cross the rails, but set to work making fresh tunnels underneath them. Apparently an order had gone forth, or a general... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1888 - 488 sider
...they came along a number of ants were crushed to death. They persevered in crossing for some time, but at last set to work and tunnelled underneath each...from the nest, they would not cross the rails, but set to work making fresh tunnels underneath them." * See Animal fntelligetue, pp. 465, 466. t Of course... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1888 - 606 sider
...they came along a number of ants were crushed to death. They persevered in crossing for some time, but at last set to work and tunnelled underneath each...waggons were not running, I stopped up the tunnels witli stones ; but although great numbers carrying leaves were thus cut off from the nest, they would... | |
 | Théodule Ribot, Frances Alice Welby - 1899 - 260 sider
...they came along a number of ants were crushed to death. They persevered in crossing for some time, but at last set to work and tunnelled underneath each rail. One day, when the cars were not running, I stopped up the tunnels with stones; but although great numbers carrying leaves... | |
 | Edmund Selous - 1905 - 382 sider
...came along, a number 116 of ants were crushed to death. They persevered in crossing, for some time, but at last set to work and tunnelled underneath each...from the nest, they would not cross the rails, but set to work making fresh tunnels underneath them. Apparently an order had gone forth, or a general... | |
 | 1905 - 796 sider
...persevered in crossing for some time, but at last set to work and tunneled underneath each rail One day I stopped up the tunnels with stones; but although...from the nest, they would not cross the rails, but set to work making fresh runnels underneath them." Sir" John Lubbock says that the bees of the genus... | |
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They persevered in crossing for several days, but at last set .to work and tunnelled underneath each, rail. One day, when the waggons were not running, I stopped up the tunnels with stones ; but although great numbers carrying leaves were thus cut off... 
