Archive image from page 290 of The descent of man . The descent of man : and selection in relation to sex descentofmansele00indarw Year: 1875 Chap. IX. Criistacemis. 269 â weapons well adapted for fighting. Tluis when a Devil-crab {Portunus pubcr) was seen by a son of Mr. Bate fighting with a Carcinus mcenas, the latter was soon thrown on its back, and had every limb torn from its body. When several males of a Brazilian Gelasimns, a species furnished with immense pincers, were placed together in a glass vessel by Fritz Miiller, they mutilated and killed one another. Mr. Bate put a large male
Archive image from page 290 of The descent of man . The descent of man : and selection in relation to sex descentofmansele00indarw Year: 1875 Chap. IX. Criistacemis. 269 â weapons well adapted for fighting. Tluis when a Devil-crab {Portunus pubcr) was seen by a son of Mr. Bate fighting with a Carcinus mcenas, the latter was soon thrown on its back, and had every limb torn from its body. When several males of a Brazilian Gelasimns, a species furnished with immense pincers, were placed together in a glass vessel by Fritz Miiller, they mutilated and killed one another. Mr. Bate put a large male Carcmus Fig. 8. Orchestia Darwinii (from Fritz Miiller), showing the differently-constructed cheltB uf the two male forms. mcenas into a pan of water, inhabited by a female which was paired with a smaller male; but the latter was soon dispossessed.
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