The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's CalendarG. Bell, 1890 - 416 Seiten |
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... torpid state during the winter , in the Isle of Wight , or any part of this country , I never heard any such account worth attending to . But a clergyman , of an inquisitive turn , assures me , that when he was a great boy , some ...
... torpid state during the winter , in the Isle of Wight , or any part of this country , I never heard any such account worth attending to . But a clergyman , of an inquisitive turn , assures me , that when he was a great boy , some ...
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... torpid state in the winter . But with regard to their migra- tion , what difficulties attend that supposition ! that such feeble bad fliers , who the summer long never flit but from hedge to hedge , should be able to traverse vast seas ...
... torpid state in the winter . But with regard to their migra- tion , what difficulties attend that supposition ! that such feeble bad fliers , who the summer long never flit but from hedge to hedge , should be able to traverse vast seas ...
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... convinced , wholly unfounded . In the winter months my toad always refused food , though he did not become torpid , but grew thin and moved much less than at other times maggots , which urn to flesh - flies . The FROGS . TOADS . 69.
... convinced , wholly unfounded . In the winter months my toad always refused food , though he did not become torpid , but grew thin and moved much less than at other times maggots , which urn to flesh - flies . The FROGS . TOADS . 69.
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... torpid state , and have revived upon being placed in a warmer temperature ; but this , I consider , has always been a suspended animation , where all the functions were entirely bound up as in death , and which , by the continuance of a ...
... torpid state , and have revived upon being placed in a warmer temperature ; but this , I consider , has always been a suspended animation , where all the functions were entirely bound up as in death , and which , by the continuance of a ...
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... torpid state , and slumber away the more uncomfortable months , till the return of the sun and fine weather awakens them . But then we must not , I think , deny migration in general ; because migration certainly does subsist in some ...
... torpid state , and slumber away the more uncomfortable months , till the return of the sun and fine weather awakens them . But then we must not , I think , deny migration in general ; because migration certainly does subsist in some ...
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