Out of Doors a Selection of Original Articles On Practical Natural History
Out of Doors a Selection of Original Articles On Practical Natural History
J G John George Wood
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hibernating animal and a tree in winter time. Indeed, the latter is truly a living creature, though on a lower plane than the lowest of the animals, and, as a partaker of life, it accepts the two conditions of life nutriment and respiration. Let the creature, whether plant or animal, be able to exist for a time without the former of these conditions or, rather, to exist for a time on a store of nutriment already laid up and the latter condition may be almost in abeyance. Take, for example, any ...of our hibernating animals, from the mammal to the insect, and see how slight and almost imperceptible is the respiration during the time that nourishment ceases. We need not take into con- sideration those insects which, in a perfect state, consume no nourishment whatever, and yet act and respire vigorously. Every one of them lives but a very short life. They are burning away the stores of fuel already laid up, and a few days at most are the utmost limit of their existence. They have just sufficient vital power to seek their mates and deposit their eggs, and straightway die.
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