 | 1820 - 490 pagine
...which, as far as we know, has not heretofore been described. " The sailors imagine this shark to be blind, because it pays not the least attention to...so apparently stupid, that it never draws back when ;. blow is aimed at it with a knife or lance. " The squalus borealis is 12 or 14 feet in length, sometimes... | |
 | Henry William Dewhurst - 1834 - 378 pagine
...representation of this singular appendage is given in the engraving. The sailors imagine this shark to be blind, because it pays not the least attention to the presence of man ; and is, indeed, so apparently foolish that it never draws itself back when a blow is aimed at... | |
 | William Yarrell - 1836 - 494 pagine
...length. Each extremity of it consists of two filaments, but the central part is single. The sailors imagine this Shark is blind, because it pays not the...when a blow is aimed at it with a knife or lance." The eyes of this Greenland Shark, with the appendages, were brought home by Captain W. Scoresby, preserved... | |
 | William Yarrell - 1841 - 642 pagine
...length. Each extremity of it consists of two filaments, but the central part is single. The sailors imagine this Shark is blind, because it pays not the...when a blow is aimed at it with a knife or lance." The eyes of this Greenland Shark, with the appendages, were brought home by Captain W. Scoresby, preserved... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1861 - 550 pagine
...is not known that they have ever been attacked by them. Indeed, the sailors imagine that this fish is blind, because it pays not the least attention to the presence of a man ; and it is so stupid that it never draws back when a blow is aimed at it with a knife or lance." 12. The... | |
 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - 1879 - 622 pagine
...The fish which are attacked by this parasite seem to be rendered blind. " The sailors," says Capt. Scoresby, "imagine this Shark is blind, because it...the least attention to the presence of a man ; and it is, indeed so apparently stupid, that it never draws back when a blow is aimed at it with a knife... | |
 | David M. Damkaer - 2002 - 328 pagine
..."singular appendage to the eye." He said that "the sailors imagine this shark [with the eye parasite] is blind, because it pays not the least attention to the presence of man" (Grant 1827, Baird 1850). In a chapter on the zoology of the Arctic, Scoresby (1820) gave a "brief... | |
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The sailors imagine this Shark is blind, because it pays not the least attention to the presence of a man ; and is, indeed, so apparently stupid, that it never draws back when a blow is aimed at it with a knife or lance. 