The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 205
t wonderful of these tiny ani-mals in water is the amceba, that looks when atrest like a tiny fleck of jelly. When the amcebastarts to walk it can thrust out leg-like exten-sions from various portions of this jelly mass,and use those that point in the direction it wishesto go. These extensions of… … AN AMCEBA SWALLOWING ADESMID. The desmid, a microscopic plant,is the stick-like extension at the lowerleft. THE SUN-ANIMALCULE. These rays are extended nearlyall the time. than itself, in a method somewhat similar to thatof a starfish eating an oyster—by merely sur-rounding it. Scientists claim…
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