| 1843 - 1040 էջ
...man makes a slit in the skin near its tail, so as to see inside its body, whether the fat under the dorsal plate is thick. If it is not, the animal is...turn them like turtle, for they are often able to regain their upright position. ' It was confidently asserted that the tortoises coming from different... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1843 - 532 էջ
...its body, whether the fat under the dorsal plate is thick. If it is not, the animal is liberate^ ; and it is said to recover soon from this strange operation....sufficient to turn them like turtle, for they are ofterç able tp regain their upright position. ' It was confidently asserted that the tprtoises coming... | |
| 1843 - 524 էջ
...man makes a slit in the skin near its tail, so as to see inside its body, whether the fat under the dorsal plate is thick. If it is not, the animal is...liberated; and it is said to recover soon from this sfrahge operation. In order to secure the tortoises; U 'is nof sufficient }o turn them like turtle,... | |
| Popular history - 1843 - 434 էջ
...man makes a slit in the skin near its tail, so as to see inside its body whether the fat under the dorsal plate is thick. If it is not, the animal is liberated ; and is said to recover soon from this strange operation. " In order to secure the Tortoises, it is not... | |
| Philip Henry Gosse - 1850 - 308 էջ
...man makes a slit in the skin near its tail, so as to see, inside its body, whether the fat under the dorsal plate is thick. If it is not, the animal is...turn them like Turtle, for they are often able to regain their upright position."* * " Darwin's " Journal. FAMILY II. (Marsh Tortoises.) This is the... | |
| William Somerville Orr - 1855 - 566 էջ
...man makes a slit in the skin near its tail, so as to see inside its body, whether the fat under the dorsal plate is thick. If it is not, the animal is...said to recover soon from this strange operation." Small as the existing species of Tortoises are. it appears that in former periods of die earth's history,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1859 - 720 էջ
...man makes a slit in the skin near its tail, so as to see inside its body, whether the fat under the dorsal plate is thick. If it is not, the animal is...said to recover soon from this strange operation." There are several other species of this genus in Asia, Africa, and South America. Genus CISTUDA : Cistuda.... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 832 էջ
...man makes a slit in the skin, near its tail, so as to see inside its body whether the fat, under the dorsal plate, is thick. If it is not, the animal is liberated ; and is said to recover soon from this strange operation. " In order to secure the tortoises, it is not... | |
| Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 776 էջ
...man makes a slit in the skin near its tail, so as to see inside its body, whether the fat under the dorsal plate is thick. If it is not, the animal is...said to recover soon from this strange operation. The marsh tortoises, or Emydœ, have their chief seat in tropical America and the Indian Archipelago,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1872 - 758 էջ
...man makes a slit in the skin near its tail, so as to see inside its body, whether the fat under the dorsal plate is thick. If it is not, the animal is...said to recover soon from this strange operation." There are several other species of this genns in Asia, Africa, and South America. Genus CISTUDA: Cistuda.... | |
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