 | 1848 - 800 oldal
...again to the tree it had just left. Crowds of these little creatures joined in these sportive gambols ; there could not have been less than two hundred. Scores...admonished us to leave the little triflers to their happy enjoyments." These little creatures enjoy life only during the night. They become tame in a few... | |
 | John James Audubon, John Bachman - 1846 - 420 oldal
...again to the tree it had just left. Crowds of these little creatures joined in these sportive gambols; there could not have been less than two hundred. Scores...the little triflers to their nocturnal enjoyments. During the day this species avoids the light, its large eyes like those of the owl cannot encounter... | |
 | Linnaean Society of New York - 1882 - 430 oldal
...again to the tree it had just left. Crowds of these little creatures joined in these sportive gambols ; there could not have been less than two hundred. Scores...object in view than to indulge a playful propensity." * The Flying Squirrel is the most highly specialized of the family to which it pertains, its whole... | |
 | Linnaean Society of New York - 1882 - 430 oldal
...again to the tree it had just left. Crowds of these little creatures joined in these sportive gambols ; there could not have been less than two hundred. Scores...each tree at the same moment, and cross each other, gliding'like spirits through the air, seeming to have no other object in view than to indulge a playful... | |
 | Bradford Torrey - 1903 - 306 oldal
...and sailing away, like boys at the old game of " swinging off birches." " Scores of them," he says, " would leave each tree at the same moment, and cross...object in view than to indulge a playful propensity." Compared with that, mine Was a small show ; but it was so much better than nothing. Two mornings later... | |
 | Ernest Thompson Seton - 1928 - 528 oldal
...of these little creatures joined in these sportive gambols; there could not have been less than 200. Scores of them would leave each tree at the same moment,...us to leave the little triflers to their nocturnal enjoyments."39 "Amer. Nat., VII, No. 3, March, 1873, p. 139. "Guide to Nature, April, 1916, p. 345.... | |
 | Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Children's Museum - 1914 - 310 oldal
...again to the tree it had just left. Crowds of these little creatures joined in these sportive gambols ; there could not have been less than two hundred. Scores...of them would leave each tree at the same moment, seeming to have no other object in view than to indulge a playful propensity." The flying squirrel... | |
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... expected to see it strike the earth, it suddenly turned upwards and alighted on the body of the tree. It would then run to the top and once more precipitate itself from the upper branches, and sail back again to the tree it had just left. Crowds of... 