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CHAPTER IV. 



PROVISIONS AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



PROVISIONS LAID UP FOR A SHORT PERIOD — PROVISIONS 

 LAID UP FOR A LONG PERIOD — ANIMALS WHO CON- 

 STRUCT BARNS — PHYSIOLOGICAL 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. 



The industries of the chase which are derived im- 

 mediately from the most imperious of needs — that of 

 assuring the existence of the individual — never arrive 

 at a very extraordinary degree of perfection ; or at 

 all events, as they are indispensable to existence, we 

 are not surprised at their development. It is un- 

 questionable that an industry marks a higher degree 

 of civilisation not only by its development, but still 

 more by its reference to the less necessary things of 

 life ; in every species the importance of the place 

 given to the superfluous is a mark of superiority. 

 The animals who, foreseeing a hard season, or fearing 



