| 1877 - 938 pages
...continued coming for several dap. I then imprisoned them also, when two others came out—showing, I think, that the community requires food, and that...in a porcelain cup on a slip of glass surrounded by water,-but accessible to the ants by a bridge, consisting of a strip of paper two-thirds of an inch... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1879 - 220 pages
...such division of labour has yet been detected. One of the most interesting problems with reference to ants is, of course, to determine the amount of their...which they would clearly desire, and then to interpose an obstacle which a little ingenuity would enable them to overcome. With this object in view, I placed... | |
| John Lubbock (1st baron Avebury.) - 1882 - 244 pages
...order to test the intelligence of ants, it has always seemed to me that there was no better way than to ascertain some object which they would 'clearly...a little ingenuity would enable them to overcome. I therefore placed some larvae in a cup which I put on a slip of glass surrounded by water, but accessible... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1882 - 526 pages
...larvae. In order to test their intelligence, it has always seemed to me that there was no better way than to ascertain some object which they would clearly...a little ingenuity would enable them to overcome. Following up, then, the preceding observations, I placed some larvae in a cup which I put on a slip... | |
| Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 524 pages
...order to test the intelligence of ants, it has always seemed to me that there was no better way than to ascertain some object which they would clearly...a little ingenuity would enable them to overcome. I therefore placed some larvae in a cup, which I put on a slip of glass surrounded by water, but accessible... | |
| Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 516 pages
...order to test the intelligence of ants, it has always seemed to me that there was no better way than to ascertain some object which they would clearly...a little ingenuity would enable them to overcome. I therefore placed some larvas in a cup, which I put on a slip of glass surrounded by water, but accessible... | |
| Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1897 - 328 pages
...order to test the intelligence of ants, it has always seemed to me that there is no better way than to ascertain some object which they would clearly...a little ingenuity would enable them to overcome. I therefore placed some larvse in a cup, which I put on a slip of glass surrounded by water, but accessible... | |
| Samuel Jackson Holmes - 1911 - 318 pages
...intelligence, it has always seemed to me that there was no better way than to ascertain some object that they would clearly desire, and then to interpose some...a little ingenuity would enable them to overcome. Following up, then, the preceding observations, I placed some larvae in a cup which I put on a slip... | |
| 1927 - 484 pages
...that there was no better way than to ascertain some object which they would clearly desire and then interpose some obstacle which a little ingenuity would enable them to overcome" (p. 247). In one experiment he surrounded some honey with a moat of glycerine. Over the moat he placed... | |
| Richard William George Hingston - 1928 - 312 pages
...writes, " it has always seemed to me that there was no better way than to ascertain some object that they would clearly desire, and then to interpose some...a little ingenuity would enable them to overcome." Is not this construction of a living ladder sufficient to satisfy Lord Avebury's demands ? The ants... | |
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