 | Edward Jesse - 1832 - Počet stránok 566
...reach of his proboscis. He leaned against his wooden bar, put out his trunk, and could just touch the potato, but could not pick it up. After several ineffectual...sufficient force to make it rebound, and he then, without dil acuity, secured it. Now it is quite clear, I think, that instinct never taught, the elephant to... | |
 | 1832 - Počet stránok 650
...the reach of his proboscis; he made repeated efforts to pick it up, but without success; at length he blew the potato against the opposite wall with sufficient force to make it rebound, and then he secured it without difficulty. A dog who was much attached to the author, was tied up one Sunday... | |
 | 1832 - Počet stránok 368
...reach of his proboscis. He leaned against his wooden bar, put out his trunk, and could just touch the potato, but could not pick it up. After several ineffectual efforts, he at last bien the potato against the opposite wall with sufficient force to make it rebound, and he then, without... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - Počet stránok 640
...reach of his proboscis. He leaned against his wooden bar, put out his trunk, and could just touch the potato, but could not pick it up. After several ineffectual...never taught the elephant to procure his food in this manner ; and it must, therefore, have been reason, or some intellectual faculty, which enabled him... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1836 - Počet stránok 430
...reach of his proboscis. He leaned against his wooden bar, put out his trunk, and could just touch the potato, but could not pick it up. After several ineffectual...rebound; and he then, without difficulty, secured it." If we can believe that this extraordinary action was any thing but mere accident,— that this half-reasoning... | |
 | Frederic James Post, of Islington - 1838 - Počet stránok 528
...matter, in equal ignorance with less favoured nations." — IQmo.QStk. — I returned from a visit to ineffectual efforts, he at last blew the potato against...wall with sufficient force to make it rebound, and lie then, without difficulty, secured it. — ED. 3 For some account of these visitors, see Appendix,... | |
 | Willson Cryer - 1842 - Počet stránok 60
...his proboscis, He leaned against his wooden bar, put out his trunk, and could just touch the potatoe, but could not pick it up. After several ineffectual efforts, he at last blew the potatoe against the opposite wall with sufficient force to make it rebound, and he then without difficulty... | |
 | Henry Duncan (D.D.) - 1847 - Počet stránok 430
...reach of his proboscis. He leaned against his wooden bar, put out his trunk, and could just touch the potato, but could not pick it up. After several ineffectual...rebound; and he then, without difficulty, secured it.' If we can believe that this extraordinary action was any thing but an ebullition of anger which led... | |
 | C. T - 1847 - Počet stránok 350
...on the floor, just out of the reach of his trunk. After several ineffectual efforts to pick it up, he at last blew the potato against the opposite wall...with sufficient force to make it rebound, and he then secured it without difficulty. The conveyance of an elephant from India, for the purpose of being sent... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1847 - Počet stránok 430
...reach of his proboscis. He leaned against his wooden bar, put out his trunk, and could just touch the potato, but could not pick it up. After several ineffectual efforts, he at last blew the potato against tta opposite wall with sufficient force to make it rebound ; and he then, without difficulty, secured... | |
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potato, but could not pick it up. After several ineffectual efforts, he at last blew the potato against the opposite wall with sufficient force to make it rebound, and he then, without difficulty secured it. Now it is quite clear, I think, that instinct... 
