 | Popular history - 1843 - 434 pages
...respect, one strange anomaly, that, when frightened, it will not enter the water. " From this cause, it is easy to drive these Lizards down to any little...will sooner allow a person to catch hold of their tail, than jump into the water. They do not seem to have any notion of biting; but when much frightened,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 716 pages
...its aquatic habits; yet there is in this respect one strange anomaly, namely, that when frightened it will not enter the water. Hence it is easy to drive...frightened they squirt a drop of fluid from each nostril. I threw one several times as far as I could into a deep pool left by the retiring tide, but it invariably... | |
 | William John Broderip - Animal behavior - 1847 - 434 pages
...; namely, that when frightened it will not enter the water. From this cause it is easy to drive the lizards down to any little point overhanging the sea,...will sooner allow a person to catch hold of their tail than jump into the water. They do not seem to have any notion of biting ; but when much frightened... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 pages
...that, when frightened, it will not enter the water. THE AMBLYRHTNCUrS CKIMTATUS. " From this cause it is easy to drive these lizards down to any little...will sooner allow a person to catch hold of their tail than jump into the water. They do not seem to have any notion of biting ; but when much frightened,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1863 - 848 pages
...that, when frightened, it will not enter the water. TIUJ AMBLYBHISCHU3 CIUSTATUS. " From this cause it is easy to drive these lizards down to any little point overhanging thesea, where they will sooner allow a person to catch hold of their tail than jump into the water.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1873 - 552 pages
...aquatic habits ; yet there is in this respect one strange anomaly, namely, that when frightened it will not enter the water. Hence it is easy to drive...do not seem to have any notion of biting ; but when mucii frightened they squirt a drop of fluid from each nostril. I threw one several times as far as... | |
 | Louis Guillaume Figuier - 1873 - 772 pages
...respect one strange anomaly, namely, that when frightened it will not enter the water. From this cause, it is easy to drive these lizards down to any little...will sooner allow a person to catch hold of their tail than jump into the water. They do not seem to have any notion of biting ; but when much frightened... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1876 - 586 pages
...aquatic habits ; yet there is in this respect one strange anonulr. namely, that when frightened it will not enter the water. Hence it is easy to drive...their tails than jump into the water. They do not stem to have any notion of biting ; but when much frightened they squirt a drop of fluid from each... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1876 - 574 pages
...aquatic habits ; yet there is in this respect one strange anomaly, namely, that when frightened it will not enter the water. Hence it is easy to drive...sea, where they will sooner allow a person to catch .iold of their tails than jump into the water. They do not seem to have any notion of biting ; but... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - Astronomy - 1887 - 886 pages
...respect one strange anomaly, namely, that when frightened it will not enter the water. From this cause, it is easy to drive these lizards down to any little...will sooner allow a person to catch hold of their tail than jump into the water. They do not seem to have any notion of biting ; but when much frightened... | |
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The nature of this lizard's food, as well as the structure of its tail and feet, and the fact of its having been seen voluntarily swimming out at sea, absolutely prove its aquatic habits; yet there is in this respect one strange anomaly, namely, that... 
