. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. AHIDIN(i ClTIICS 189 hunt. The big red Warriors have won ; the little yellow Turfites have been repulsed and defeated with great slaughter. The victors are at present engaged in carrying captured cocoons to their own nests ; there the will hatch out shortly into willing slaves, and, never having known any other condition, will take it for granted that the natural post for small yellow ants is to clean and forage and catch food for big red ones. Our own Warrior Aiits are slave-holders which. NO. 4.—A slave-hunt; conq
. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. AHIDIN(i ClTIICS 189 hunt. The big red Warriors have won ; the little yellow Turfites have been repulsed and defeated with great slaughter. The victors are at present engaged in carrying captured cocoons to their own nests ; there the will hatch out shortly into willing slaves, and, never having known any other condition, will take it for granted that the natural post for small yellow ants is to clean and forage and catch food for big red ones. Our own Warrior Aiits are slave-holders which. NO. 4.—A slave-hunt; conquerors carrying off the COCOONS OF THE ENEMY. still retain some power of working and acting for themselves; but there are other species in which the " peculiar institution " has produced its usual degrading result by rendering the slave-owner in- capable and degenerate, a mere fighting do-nothing. Among the Amazon ants, which are very confirmed slave-makers, Sir John Lubbock found that a great lady, left alone without slaves, in the presence of food, did not even know how to feed herself; she was positively starving to death in the midst of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. New York : Doubleday & McClure
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