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Animal stratifi- cation Specialized tree- bound animals Rapid turnover of nutrients Basic physical and orbital data Various. gigantism is shown among rain - forest invertebrates , which include the giant snail of Africa , “ bird - eating ...
Animal stratifi- cation Specialized tree- bound animals Rapid turnover of nutrients Basic physical and orbital data Various. gigantism is shown among rain - forest invertebrates , which include the giant snail of Africa , “ bird - eating ...
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... animals . From the point of view of learning , however , the most important difference is that plants on the whole are fixed or sedentary , while animals generally are mobile and active . Animals are in fact essentially predatory ...
... animals . From the point of view of learning , however , the most important difference is that plants on the whole are fixed or sedentary , while animals generally are mobile and active . Animals are in fact essentially predatory ...
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... animals incorporates a number of complicating features , even though the phe- nomena appear behaviorally identical to those in lower animals . Rats in which the spinal cord has been severed from the brain , for example , will continue ...
... animals incorporates a number of complicating features , even though the phe- nomena appear behaviorally identical to those in lower animals . Rats in which the spinal cord has been severed from the brain , for example , will continue ...
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