 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 624 pages
...four beetles interred the bodies of four frogs, three small birds, two grasshoppers, and one mole, besides the entrails of a fish, and two morsels of the lungs of an ox. Of the mode in which they performed this very singular operation, the following is an account. A linnet... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1804 - 740 pages
...the bodies of four frogs, three small birds, two grasshoppers, and one mole, besides the en trails of a fish, and two morsels of the lungs of an ox. ACCOUNT OF THE BURVINGBEETLE. THISaccountof the burying-bettle is taken from M. Gleditch, a wellknown... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1818 - 568 pages
...space of earth allotted to them, twelve carcases : viz. four frogs, three small birds, two fishes, ene mole,, and two grasshoppers, besides the entrails...a fish, and two morsels of the lungs of an ox. In smother experiment a single beetle buried a mole forty times its own bulk and weight in two daysa.... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1822 - 618 pages
...four beetles had interred in the very small space of earth allotted to them, twelve carcases : viz. four frogs, three small birds, two fishes, one mole,...mole forty times its own bulk and weight in two days *. It is plain that all this labour is incurred for the sake of placing in security the future young... | |
 | Insects - 1825 - 182 pages
...four beetles had interred, in the very small space of earth allotted to them, twelve carcasses : viz. four frogs, three small birds, two fishes, one mole,...of a fish, and two morsels of the lungs of an ox. Is not this surprising ? It is rather singular that the male should partake the labour with the female,... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - 424 pages
...four beetles had interred in the very small space of earth allotted to them, twelve carcasses; viz. four frogs, three /small birds, two fishes, one mole,...mole forty times its own bulk and weight in two days. While engaged in these experiments, a friend, who wished to dry a toad in the shade, fixed it to the... | |
 | James Rennie - Animal behavior - 1830 - 442 pages
...four beetles had interred, in the very small space of earth allotted to them, twelve carcasses : viz., four frogs, three small birds, two fishes, one mole,...forty times its own bulk and weight in two days*." In the summer of 1826, we found on Putney Heath, in Surrey, four of these beetles, hard at work in... | |
 | 1830 - 592 pages
...four bettles had interred, in the very small space of earth allotted to them, twelve carcasses : viz., four frogs, three small birds, two fishes, one mole,...morsels of the lungs of an ox. In another experiment, a beetle buried a mole, forty times it own bulk and weight, in two days. ' In the summer of 1826, we... | |
 | 1830 - 436 pages
...carcasses : vis. four frogs, three small hirds, two fishes, one mole, and two grasshoppers, heside the entrails of a fish, and two morsels of the lungs of an ox. In another experiment, a single heetle huried a mole forty times its own hulk [Ad weight in two days. — Ihid. Maths. — There are... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - Zoology - 1832 - 696 pages
...four beetles had interred, in the very small space of earth allotted to them, twelve carcases: viz. , four frogs, three small birds, two fishes, one mole,...a single beetle buried a mole forty times its own weight and bulk in two days. It is plain that all this labour is incurred for the sake of placing in... | |
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... viz. four frogs, three small birds, two fishes, one mole, and two grasshoppers, besides the entrails of a fish, and two morsels of the lungs of an ox. In another experiment a single beetle buried a mole forty times its own bulk and weight in two days. 
