 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1873 - 742 sidor
...characteristic attenuated tails, worried them incessantly. On one occasion I witnessed the two Cetácea acting evidently in concert against one of these unwieldy...day-time mostly lie hidden in the crevices of the rock- work, turtles, and a huge monk-fish (R/iiriii squatinn) sole occupants of this colossal tank.... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1873 - 584 sidor
...to the pertinacious attention of its former comrades. Some large skate (Raja clavala. and maculata), while they maintained their usual habit of lying sluggishly...day-time mostly lie hidden in the crevices of the rock- work, turtles, and a huge monk-fish (KhitiJ squatina) sole occupants of this colossal tank. While... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1882 - 550 sidor
...witnessed the two Cetacea acting evidently in concert against one of these unwieldy fish (skates), the latter swimming close to the top of the water,...unfortunate caudal appendage high above its surface — the peculiar tail of the skate being the object of sport to the porpoises, which seized it in their... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1891 - 552 sidor
...witnessed the two Cetacea acting evidently in concert against one of these unwieldy fish (skates), the latter swimming close to the top of the water,...lifting its unfortunate caudal appendage high above its surfuco — the peculiar tail of the skate being the object of sport to tho porpoises, which seized... | |
 | Karl Groos - 1896 - 382 sidor
...witnessed the two Cetacea acting evidently in concert against one of these unwieldy fish (skates), the latter swimming close to the top of the water...unfortunate caudal appendage high above its surface — the peculiar tail of the skate being the object of sport to the porpoises, which seized it in their... | |
 | Karl Groos - 1896 - 402 sidor
...one of these unwieldy fish tskates), the latter swimming close to the tol) of the water and sceking momentary respite from its relentless enemies by lifting...unfortunate caudal appendage high above its surface — the pecuüar tail of the skate being the object of sport to the porpoises, which seized it in their... | |
 | Karl Groos - 1898 - 380 sidor
...one of these unwieldy fish (skates), the latter swimming close to the * Thierseelenkunde, ii, p. 242. top of the water and seeking momentary respite from...unfortunate caudal appendage high above its surface — the peculiar tail of the skate being the object of sport to the porpoises, which seized it in their... | |
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On one occasion I witnessed the two Cetacea acting evidently in concert against one of these unwieldy fish (skates), the latter swimming close to the top of the water, and seeking momentary respite from its relentless enemies by lifting its unfortunate... 