ISBN: 9781459072985

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...of danger from the mass of caterpillars the larva retreats into its sheath and ascends to the roof, where the wriggling swarm cannot reach it. ''4 Let us refer also to the remarkable history of the Copris. We cannot deny that the valiant dung-beetle is capable of evading the accidental (which to Fabre constitutes one of the distinctive characteristics of the intelligence), since it immediately intervenes if with the point of a penknife we open the roof of its nest and lay bare its egg. The fragments raised by the knife are immediately brought together and soldered, so that no trace is left of the injury, and all is once more in order. We may read also with what incredible address the mother Copris was able to use and to profit by the ready-made pellets of cow-dung which it occurred to Eabre to offer her.''5 But their scope is limited, and encroaches very little, in the eyes of the great observer, on the domain of intelligence. This he demonstrates to satiety, and his astonishing Necrophori, which adapt themselves so admirably to circumstances and triumph over the experimental difficulties to which he subjects them, seem scarcely to exceed the limits of those actions which at bottom are merely unconscious.16 With the spawning of the Osmia, Fabre throws a fresh and unexpected light on the intuitive knowledge of instinct. We are still groping our way among the causes which rule the determination of the sexes. Biology has only been able to throw a few scattered lights on the subject, and we possess only a few approximate data; which nevertheless are turned to account by the breeders of insects. We are still in the region of illusion and imperfect prognostics. But the Osmia knows what we do not. She is deeply versed in all physiological and... Georges Victor Legros, Books, Biography and Memoir, Fabre; poet of science Books>Biography and Memoir, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1459072987

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ISBN: 1459072987

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