Zoology
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The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes: A Study of Ideational BehaviorThe Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes: A Study of Ideational Behavior1. Julius, Pongo pygmaeus: Box stacking experiment Box and pole experiment Draw-in experiment Lock and key test 2. Skirrl, Pithecus irus: Box stacking experiment Box and pole experiment Draw-in experiment Hammer and nail...
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The History of InsectsThe History of InsectsInsects are so called from a separation in the middle of their bodies, seemingly cut into two parts, and joined together by a small ligature, as we see in wasps and common flies. However small and contemptible this class of beings...
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Book about AnimalsBook about Animals Is the biggest of all land animals. He is more than five times as big as an ox. But he is a harmless creature, for all that. When he is wild, and lives in the woods, he will run away, if...
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Within the DeepWithin the Deep - Cassell's "Eyes and No Eyes" Series, Book VIII. Of all the fish in the wide ocean world, the Herring deserves to be called the king. He gives work to thousands of people, and food to millions. Many towns exist because...
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Northern Trails, Book INorthern Trails, Book I.In the original preface to "Northern Trails" the author stated that, with the solitary exception of the salmon's life in the sea after he vanishes from human sight, every incident recorded here is founded squarely upon personal and accurate observation of...
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Concerning Cats: My Own and Some OthersConcerning Cats: My Own and Some Others She was such a Pretty Lady, and gentle withal; so quiet and eminently ladylike in her behavior, and yet dignified and haughtily reserved as a duchess. Still it is better, under certain circumstances, to be a cat...
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The Dancing Mouse: A Study in Animal BehaviorThe Dancing Mouse: A Study in Animal BehaviorThis book is the direct result of what, at the time of its occurrence, seemed to be an unimportant incident in the course of my scientific work the presentation of a pair of dancing mice to the...
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Wanderings in South AmericaWanderings in South America I offer this book of "Wanderings" with a hesitating hand. It has little merit, and must make its way through the world as well as it can. It will receive many a jostle as it goes along, and perhaps is...
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The Naturalist in La PlataThe Naturalist in La PlataTHE plan I have followed in this work has been to sift and arrange the facts I have gathered concerning the habits of the animals best known to me, preserving those only, which, in my judgment, appeared worth recording. In...
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John James AudubonJohn James Audubon The pioneer in American ornithology was Alexander Wilson, a Scotch weaver and poet, who emigrated to this country in 1794, and began the publication of his great work upon our birds in 1808. He figured and described three hundred and twenty...
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Birds in Town and VillageBirds in Town & Village AUTHOR OF "THE PURPLE LAND," "IDLE DAYS IN PATAGONIA," "FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO," ETC. THIS book is more than a mere reprint of Birds in a Village first published in 1893. That was my first book about bird...
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Catalogue of British Columbia BirdsCatalogue of British Columbia BirdsThe present list is intended to include all birds which have been so far proven to occur in British Columbia. I am fully aware of its incompleteness, and very much regret much of its lack of more definite information regarding...
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Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early LifeFar Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early LifePreambleThe house where I was bornThe singular ombu treeA tree without a nameThe plainThe ghost of a murdered slaveOur playmate, the old sheep-dogA first riding-lessonThe cattle: an evening sceneMy motherCaptain ScottThe hermit and his...
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The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal ObservationsThe Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal ObservationsDuring these days of ceaseless conflict, anxiety and unrest among men, when at times it begins to look as if "the Caucasian" really is "played out," perhaps the English-reading world will turn with...
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Friends and HelpersFriends and HelpersThe object of this book is to teach children to treat all living creatures with considerate kindness and to appreciate the services of man's helpers in the animal world. In many homes this teaching is entirely neglected, and it is left for...
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Moths of the Limberlost: A Book About Limberlost CabinMoths of the Limberlost: A Book About Limberlost CabinTo me the Limberlost is a word with which to conjure; a spot wherein to revel. The swamp lies in north-eastern Indiana, nearly one hundred miles south of the Michigan line and ten west of the...
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Let's Collect Rocks and ShellsLet's Collect Rocks and ShellsMillions of people throughout the world have found many hours of pleasure, adventure and education by collecting either rocks or shells. This booklet won't tell you everything there is to know about rocks and shells. That would require many large...
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The Life of the BeeThe Life of the Bee IT is not my intention to write a treatise on apiculture, or on practical bee-keeping. Excellent works of the kind abound in all civilised countries, and it were useless to attempt another. France has those of Dadant, Georges de...
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Wake-RobinWake-Robin This is mainly a book about the Birds, or more properly an invitation to the study of Ornithology, and the purpose of the author will be carried out in proportion as it awakens and stimulates the interest of the reader in this branch...
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The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of InsectsThe Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects EXPERIMENT 1. The mole is fixed fore and aft, with a lashing of raphia, to a light horizontal cross-bar resting on two forks. The Necrophori, after long tiring themselves in digging under the body,...
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