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the strange deep-water fishes of Lake Baikal 



eighty seeds from a olodlet on a bird's foot 



water animals which do not get wet 



the water -spider's sub-aquatic nest . 



fishes out of water 



the golden age of earthworms . 



caves as refuges for weaklings . 



various solutions of the problem of flight 



many different kinds of ' swooping ' Vertebrates 



the flights of gossamer spiders 



productivity of fishes, rats, rabbits, etc. 



a starfish with 200 million eggs 



fourteen species on one stone 



red snow 



spider living in a pitcher-plant 



nets made by caddis-worms 



the Penelope spider . 



the Antarctic fauna 



desert vegetation' 



rock-boring animals 



ehmbirig fishes 



adaptations of aquatic insects 



frogs in salt water . 



nesting of the White Tern 



remarkable nest of a tree-frog 



a mouthless carp 



extraordinary tenacity of life 



life of tissues and organs excised from the body 



stinging by a decapitated wasp 



the Big Trees, over 2,000 years old . 



the habits of the land -crab 



skates in fresh water 



the summer sleep of mud-fishes 



turning white in winter . 



the Rufied Grouse beneath the snow 



the migration of birds 



the Arctic Tern in the Antarctic circle 



the return of a swallow to its birth-place 



flying at the rate of 100 miles per hour 



the power of way-finding in birds 



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