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Scientific American, Vol. 84, No. 17 (1901) (1901)
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s of ordinary ants. As, The hippopotamus, in the tremendous lapse however, both the time and natural apparatus of time which has attended its evolution, has for digging possessed by the latter are want- learned scarcely more than to fulfill the sim- ing to excavate galleries and apartments neces-… … and finished, are much more perfectly adapted ner in which an ant left by Nature to her own for the purposes they serve than are any con- devices overcomes a difficulty is perhaps that TO BIND AND CEMENT THE LEAVES. © 1901 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC.Internet Archive · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
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