 The mother will not leave her eggs, when near hatching, under any circumstances, while life remains. She will even allow an enclosure to be made around her, and thus suffer imprisonment, rather than abandon them. I once witnessed the hatching of a brood...  Our Domestic Fowls - Side 96af William Charles L. Martin - 1799 - 16 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John James Audubon - 1832 - 564 sider
...even allow an enclosure to be made around her, and thus suffer imprisonment, rather than abandon them. I once witnessed the hatching of a brood of Turkeys,...the mother on such occasions, carefully remove each half-empty shell, and with her bill caress and dry the young birds, that already stood tottering and... | |
 | Samuel Roper - 1832 - 178 sider
...even allow an inclosure to be made around her, and thus suffer imprisonment rather than abandon them. I once witnessed the hatching of a brood of Turkeys,...the mother on such occasions, carefully remove each half-empty shell, and with her bill caress and dry the young birds, that already stood tottering and... | |
 | Daniel Jay Browne - 1850 - 342 sider
...made around her, and thus be as it were imprisoned, rather than seek her own safety by flight. Mr. Audubon says, " I once witnessed the hatching of a...the mother on such occasions, carefully remove each half-empty shell, and with her bill caress and dry the young birds that already stood tottering and... | |
 | R. E. - 1851 - 464 sider
...quote Audubon's words from his own volume. He says:* * Audubon's Ornithological Biography, vol. ip 7. " I once witnessed the hatching of a brood of turkeys,...feet, and saw her raise herself half the length of her eggs, look anxiously on the eggs, cluck with a sound peculiar to the mother on such occasions, carefully... | |
 | Lewis Wright - 1885 - 698 sider
...cluck." He describes the actual hatching-out of a brood, which he once witnessed, as follows : — " I concealed myself on the ground, within a very few feet, and saw the female raise herself half the length of her legs, look anxiously upon the eggs, cluck with a sound... | |
 | Jean-Henri Fabre - 1918 - 392 sider
...even allow an enclosure to be made around her, and thus suffer imprisonment, rather than abandon them. I once witnessed the hatching of a brood of turkeys,...the mother on such occasions, carefully remove each half-empty shell, and with her bill caress and dry the young birds, that already stood tottering and... | |
 | Jean-Henri Fabre - 1918 - 390 sider
...even allow an enclosure to be made around her, and thus suffer imprisonment, rather than abandon them. I once witnessed the hatching of a brood of turkeys,...the mother on such occasions, carefully remove each half-empty shell, and with her bill caress and dry the young birds, that already stood tottering and... | |
 | Arthur Cleveland Bent - 1932 - 618 sider
...even allow an enclosure to be made around her, and thus suffer imprisonment, rather than abandon them. I once witnessed the hatching of a brood of Turkeys,...the mother on such occasions, carefully remove each half-empty shell, and with her bill caress and dry the young birds, that already stood tottering and... | |
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