Science Gleanings in Animal Life - 1887 Author:John, Gibson Contents Include: Antlers - Poisonous Animals - Blind Animals - Some Animal Defences - Animal Foes - Animal Partnerships - Mimicry in Animals - Animal Intelligence - The Ways of the Ant - The Migration of Birds - Emigrant Plants and Animals - Jelly-Fishes - Giant Cuttle-Fishes - Mind in Fishes - Fishing Animals - The Food of Sea Fishes - Facts a... more »bout Flat Fishes - The Herring and Cod Fisheries - Whales and Whale Fishing - The Seals of Commerce - The Sponge Fishery - The Pearl Fishery - Precious Coral - Oyster Culture - Silk Culture - Flowers and Bees - The Utilization of Carrier Pigeons - The Domestication of the African Elephant - Recent Acclimatization - Ancient Polar Vegetation - The Mammoth - Man's Age in Britain - Lake Dwellings - Some American Fossils - The Fossil Fishes of Scotland - Fossil Birds - The Extinction of the Great Auk« less