Aristotle's History of Animals: In Ten BooksG. Bell, 1878 - 326 עמודים |
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abdomen adeps afterwards aorta appear aquatic Aristotle become bees birds blood body bone called carabi catamenia ceryx cestreus cetacea CHAPTER claws coition colour copulate creatures deposit disease dolphin eagle eggs eject emit especially external eyes feet female fish flesh foetus goats hair head hive honey horns horse insects intestine kind larger legs less live lungs malacia malacostraca male mammæ manner mare membrane milk months mouth nature nest observed oesophagus oviparous oviparous quadrupeds ovum parturition passage period persons pigeon polypus Pontus pregnant produce their young pudendum quadrupeds resembles sanguineous animals season selache semen seminal fluid sepia serpents sexual intercourse sheep shell side skin spring sting stomach tail takes place teeth testacea testicles teuthis thick tongue trachea trigla trygon uterus veins viviparous viviparous animals voice wasps wherefore whole wild wings winter women worms
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עמוד 98 - ... have eyelids sleep with the eyes closed; and not only men appear to dream, but horses, oxen, sheep, goats, dogs, and all viviparous quadrupeds. Dogs show this by barking in their sleep. It is not quite clear whether oviparous animals dream, but it is quite plain that they sleep. • ••••» ' Man sleeps the most of all animals. Infants and young children do not dream at all, but dreaming begins in most at about four or five years old. There have been men and women who have never dreamt...
עמוד 209 - ... for they are afraid of excessive heat. Some migrate from places close at hand, and others from the very ends of the earth. 2. The cranes do this, for they travel from Scythia to the marshes in the higher parts of Egypt, from which the Nile originates. This is the place where the Pygmies dwell ; and this is no fable, for there is really, as it is said, a race of dwarfs, both men and horses, which lead the life of troglodites.
עמוד 254 - For the batrachus has appendages above its eyes, of the length of a hair, with a round extremity to each like a bait. It buries itself in the sand or mud, and raises these appendages above the surface, and when the small fish strike them it draws them down till it brings the fish within reach...
עמוד 137 - ... the night. They produce a great many eggs, as many as an hundred. ' 2- The saurians and both the land and river crocodiles produce their eggs upon the land. Those of the lizards are hatched spontaneously in the earth ; for the lizard does not live a whole year, for it is said to live only six months. The river crocodile produces as many as sixty eggs, which are white. She sits upon them for sixty days, for they live a long while. A very large animal is produced from these small eggs ; for the...
עמוד 194 - Nature passes so gradually from inanimate to animate things, that from their continuity their boundary and the mean between them is indistinct. The race of plants succeeds immediately that of inanimate objects ; and these differ from each other in the proportion of life in which they participate ; for, compared with other bodies, plants appear to possess life, though, when compared with animala, they appear inanimate.
עמוד 158 - Eels are not produced from sexual intercourse, nor are they oviparous, nor have they ever been detected with semen or ova, nor when dissected do they appear to possess either seminal or uterine viscera; and this is the only kind of sanguineous animal which does not originate either in sexual intercourse or in ova. It is, however, manifest that this is the case, for, after rain, they have been reproduced in some marshy ponds, from which all the water was drawn and the mud cleaned out; but they are...
עמוד 99 - ... coition. 2. In other kinds the sexes are either single or not single ; as in all quadrupeds there is the male and female, in the testacea it is not so, for as some vegetables are fertile and others barren, so it is in these. Among insects and fishes there are some that have no differences of this kind, as the eel is neither male nor female, nor is anything produced from them. 3. But those persons who say that some eels appear to have creatures like worms, of the size of a hair, attached to them,...
עמוד 87 - THE creatures called tethya1 have a most distinct character, for in these alone is the whole body concealed in a shell. Their shell is intermediate between skin and shell, so that it can be cut like hard leather : this shell-like substance is attached to rocks ; in it there are two perforations, quite...
עמוד 271 - IT has been already observed that we can distinguish a difference in the dispositions of animals, especially in the courage and cowardice, and then in their mildness and fierceness, even in wild animals. The lion in his manner of feeding is very cruel ; but when he is not hungry, and is full fed, his disposition is gentle. He is not either jealous or suspicious. He is fond of playing with and affectionate towards those animals which have been brought up with him, and to which he has become accustomed....
עמוד 124 - It passes through all these forms in six months From this animal some women unroll and separate the bombycina (cocoons), and afterwards weave them.