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CHAPTER IV. 



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Provisions and Domestic Animals ... ... 80 



Provisions laid up for a short period — Provisions laid up 

 for a long period — Animals who conslruct barns — Physio- 

 logical reserves — Stages between physiological reserves and 

 provisions — Animals who submit food to special treatment 

 in order to facilitate transport — Care bestowed on harvested 

 provisions — Agricultural ants — Gardening ants — Domestic 

 animals of ants — Degrees of civilisation in the same species 

 of ants — Aphis-pens and paddocks — Slavery among ants. 



CHAPTER V. 

 Provision for Rearing the Young ... ... 114 



The preservation of the individual and the preservation of 

 the species — Foods manufactured by the parents for their 

 young — Species which obtain for their larvee foods manu- 

 factured by others — Carcasses of animals stored up — 

 Provision of paralysed living animals — The cause of the 

 paralysis — The sureness of instinct — Similar cases in which 

 the specific instinct is less powerful and individual initiative 

 greater — Genera less skilful in the art of paralysing victims. 



CHAPTER VI. 

 Dwellings ... ... ... ... .,. ... 138 



Animals naturally provided with dwellings — Animals who 

 increase their natural protection by the addition of foreign 

 bodies — Animals who establish their home in the natural or 

 artificial dwellings of others — Classification of artificial 

 shelters — Hollowed dwellings — Rudimentary burrows — 

 Carefully-disposed burrows — Burrows with barns adjoined 

 — Dwellings hollowed out in wood — Woven dwellings- 

 Rudiments of this industry — Dwellings formed of coarsely- 

 entangled materials — Dwellings woven of flexible substances 

 — Dwellings woven with greater art — The art of sewing 

 among birds — Modifications of dwellings according to 



