The Polar World: a Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the GlobeHarper & Brothers, 1869 - 486 páginas |
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... soon as the first frosts of September announce the approach of win- ter , all animals , with but few exceptions , hasten to leave a region where the sources of life must soon fail . The geese , ducks , and swans return in dense flocks ...
... soon as the first frosts of September announce the approach of win- ter , all animals , with but few exceptions , hasten to leave a region where the sources of life must soon fail . The geese , ducks , and swans return in dense flocks ...
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... forth in May a single calf , rarely two . This is small and weak , but after a few days it follows the mother , who suckles her young but a * short time , as it is soon able to seek. QUADRUPEDS AND BIRDS . 35 Group of Reindeer.
... forth in May a single calf , rarely two . This is small and weak , but after a few days it follows the mother , who suckles her young but a * short time , as it is soon able to seek. QUADRUPEDS AND BIRDS . 35 Group of Reindeer.
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Georg Hartwig. short time , as it is soon able to seek and to find its food . The reindeer gives very little milk -- at ... soon gets accustomed to its master , whose society it loves , attracted as it were by a kind of innate sympathy ...
Georg Hartwig. short time , as it is soon able to seek and to find its food . The reindeer gives very little milk -- at ... soon gets accustomed to its master , whose society it loves , attracted as it were by a kind of innate sympathy ...
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... soon as it hears the buzzing of the fly , and seeks a refuge in the nearest water . The other species of gad - fly ( Estrus nasalis ) lays its eggs in the nostrils of the reindeer , and the larvæ , boring themselves into the fauces and ...
... soon as it hears the buzzing of the fly , and seeks a refuge in the nearest water . The other species of gad - fly ( Estrus nasalis ) lays its eggs in the nostrils of the reindeer , and the larvæ , boring themselves into the fauces and ...
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... soon perish for the want of adequate food , but plunges up to the nose into the next river , where it finds , moreover , a spe- cies of water - grass ( Festuca fluitans ) which it likes to feed upon . Though naturally mild and harmless ...
... soon perish for the want of adequate food , but plunges up to the nose into the next river , where it finds , moreover , a spe- cies of water - grass ( Festuca fluitans ) which it likes to feed upon . Though naturally mild and harmless ...
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