Some Strange Nurseries
Some Strange Nurseries
Y ناس a OU could hardly find better rough test of relative development in the animal (or vegetable) world than the number of young produced…
Some Strange Nurseries: English
Our commonest English lizard, for example, which frequents moors and sandhills, does not lay or deposit its eggs at all, but hatches them…
Some Strange Nurseries: Nest
The first care of the male stickleback, when he has acquired his courting suit, is to build a suitable home for his future wives and…
Some Strange Nurseries: Pouch
The common English pipe-fish is a good example of the other and much more usual case in which the father alone is actuated by a proper…
Some Strange Nurseries: Frogs
Frogs are very closely allied to fish: indeed, one may almost say that every frog begins life as a fish, limbless, gill-bearing, and…
Some Strange Nurseries: Surinam
The Surinam toad, represented in No. 8, is also the possessor of one of the strangest nurseries known to science. It lives in the dense…