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  "The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.


id: 8729
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  The Cartwright Prize of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University


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  THE VARIOUS SERIES MALES FEMALES AVERAGES AVERAGES GENERAL AVERAGES AVERAGES GENERAL AVERAGES SERIES


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id: 19850
title: The Human Side of Animals
author: Dixon, Royal
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  conceit of cataloging every human-like action of animals under the word catch fish and small animals that live in or near the water. The _Animal World_ speaks of five musical cats, which were carried to This protective form of armour has been used by animals since time These animals have a great advantage over man, for their armour grows more like the work of man than of an animal. As a matter of fact, animal language is quite often intelligible to man. Water-loving animals, like the beavers, seemingly take WATER-LOVING ANIMALS, LIKE THE BEAVERS, SEEMINGLY TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN WATER-LOVING ANIMALS, LIKE THE BEAVERS, SEEMINGLY TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN Animals know better than man what kind of food they need, for the simple human-like methods of these food conservers of the animal world, and And the time is already here when man should protect his animal


id: 29349
title: Creatures of the Night: A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain
author: Rees, Alfred Wellesley
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  Wild life at night--Long watching--A "set" with numerous inhabitants--The Autumn passed on towards winter, the nights were long, the great harvest diving across-stream, just as an old fox, when hunting in the woods, first, like a young fox that, till he learns the fear of dogs and men, A certain vole, living in the river-bank near the place where the blossomed in the hedge-bank near the field-vole''s home, and the lark, in the winter days far more frequently than did the field-voles. Kweek, the little field-vole, asleep in his hidden nest beneath the woodland home; and even the narrow path from the field-voles'' burrow to autumn night, and lay in the shadow of the stone where the old male vole first the mother badger brought a rabbit home, she placed it close old fox came from the edge of the wood; and then for some time all was


id: 29816
title: The Industries of Animals
author: Houssay, Frédéric
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  study of animals, plants, rocks, and of natural objects generally, was of the Bees, constructs nests composed of cells formed of mud _Different methods of hunting._--Like Man, some animals hunt in ambush there are animals which construct genuine ambushes, acting thus like soon as some small animal approaches his hiding-place he throws The animals who feed on species living in societies either seize on Californian bird of prey, is a cruel enemy to animals like the goat form of the struggle for life, manifested every time the animals find most rudimentary to the highest, very near what we may observe in Man. The provisions harvested by animals have more than one destination: _Domestic animals of Ants._--Following through different species the to many South American birds, of breeding in the large covered nests A large number of animals also hollow out shelters for their eggs, Thomson''s little book, _The Study of Animal Life_ (University


id: 17185
title: Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits
author: Bingley, Thomas
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  Uncle Thomas resumes his Stories about the Instinct of Animals.--Tells Uncle Thomas relates some Very Remarkable Stories about the Cat; points Uncle Thomas concludes Stories about Instinct with several Interesting Animals.--Tells about the Horse, and of the Immense Herds which are The animal proceeded cautiously, and safely for some time, till coming "But, Uncle Thomas, what can be the use of such animals as white ants? Uncle Thomas relates some Very Remarkable Stories about the Cat; cat kind, such as the lion, tiger, &c.; and though these animals differ Uncle Thomas tells about the Migrating Instinct of Animals.--Of the Uncle Thomas tells about the Migrating Instinct of Animals.--Of the "Uncle Thomas, I heard to-day of a swallow which for many years returned "Which animals do you mean, Uncle Thomas?" "Where do such animals come from, Uncle Thomas." 174 "Where do such animals come from, Uncle Thomas." should end with ?


id: 18767
title: Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match
author: Woodworth, Francis C. (Francis Channing)
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  Rover, my old friend Rover--my companion and play-fellow, when a little took place, when the dog followed the remains of his master to the The Indian followed his dog, and the excellent animal conducted him to this dog Barry, which I read the other day in a little French book, One day, as a little girl was amusing herself with a child, near remember the time well, when the man who purchased our old pet came to I have had a great many pets since--cats and dogs, squirrels and among us school-boys, whether the animal went head foremost or not. that he would place his fore feet in the hands of the boy, like a dog, an animal, which the gentleman supposed were those of a large dog. the place where the animal was exhibited, used to pull the dog''s ears, when, before he had time to think of his danger, the insulted animal ran


id: 18193
title: Ways of Wood Folk
author: Long, William J. (William Joseph)
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  way to the big hill, with its brook, and old walls, and rail fences, young foxes come out to play in the sunshine like so many kittens. Since then I have seen an old fox with what looked like a and begins to play on the beach in plain sight, watching the birds the little pond, with a dark bird rising swiftly, far out of reach, birds come in the early spring to build their nests. crows caw all day long, and not a duck takes his head from under his time I saw a pair of little black eyes wink, or a head come from under when from the other side an old bird shot suddenly into the open water waited where I was till I saw both birds fly to the nest, each with When birds nest, or foxes den, or beasts fight in the woods, he is


id: 27887
title: Wild Animals at Home
author: Seton, Ernest Thompson
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  are unknown, they find the wild things half tame, little afraid of man, Each time I have come to the Yellowstone Park I have discovered the feet away, they scuttle down out of sight the moment a man, dog or near hills when night time had come. The Prairie-dog range ends near the Park gates. his home, for it is a far-reaching sound, heard half a mile away at Winter was coming on, work was scarce, and Josh went to Gardiner to see a big-tailed form came near and made a little bark at the lantern. a little knoll near a drinking place, we came suddenly on a mother One day as I came into camp in the Shoshonees, east of the Park, an old The old man said: "Well, you sure got it this time. the Bears which came and went in greater numbers as the day was closing.


id: 30249
title: Ways of Nature
author: Burroughs, John
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  enough to know just how much sense the birds and other wild creatures Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; Probably in a state of wild nature birds never make mistakes, but The mother bird alighted in the water under the nest, looked all I have seen disinterested acts among the birds, or what looked like bird had probably heard the song and learned it while very young. The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most that old birds build better nests or sing better than young ones it woods, and live on fruit and land-insects, and nest in trees like A great many young birds come to grief by leaving the nest before they Some of our wild birds have changed their habits of nesting, coming nest-building, and the songs of different birds of this species vary


id: 31787
title: The Bird and Insects'' Post Office
author: Bloomfield, Robert
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  BLOOMFIELD, author of the "Farmer''s Boy," &c., excepting Letters VIII., We all know that Æsop has made his birds and beasts talk, and reason And as I like to write for children, and think a great deal of know my character, when I inform you that I think you remarkably tame nightingales really do, as is said of us, cross the great water every Believe me, I have a great respect for you, and am your young friend, and my children, poor things, running, as they thought, from danger, you a long letter, and can think of no more but Quack! What a long time it is since I received your kind letter about the have come through your office, but I know you have not the authority to in old times, when swallows came to England, there were no such things you of me, who heard a nightingale on New Year''s Day?


id: 1901
title: Secrets of the Woods
author: Long, William J. (William Joseph)
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  wild things would come to my table, their eyes shining like jet, their woods kept fox and lynx and owl far away--that he learned after a day or for a hunting life, following the old family instinct; for fishing is an woods, hovering over the brush near the butt of the old tree, looking the autumn woods are busy places, and wings flutter and little feet go which the little partridges jumped and scurried away, so much like the I followed a little way, watching every move, till she turned again, and the deer; but there was little to be learned in the summer woods. At another time I crept up to an old road beyond the little deer pond, in the same woods, this time not to watch and, learn, but to follow the Old Wally came in a little while, not following the trail,--he had no


id: 6052
title: The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations
author: Hornaday, William T. (William Temple)
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  The intelligence and the ways of wild animals are large subjects. thing about a wild animal is its mind and its reasoning,_ and that a man took unto himself certain tractable wild animals, and made places where wild animals and birds are trained, sold or kept for those wild animals have certain rights which man is in honor bound has a high opinion of the grizzly bear as a thinking animal. man of good intelligence to work continuously with a wild animal At this time many persons know that the wild animals and birds now The man who flouts a good stage performance by wild animals on the and to this one life-saving well wild animals of many species In the minds of wild animals, birds between wild animals of the same species. place in the lives of wild animals. following may be listed as the wild animals most dangerous to man:


id: 10962
title: Concerning Animals and Other Matters
author: Aitken, Edward Hamilton
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  contact with the Indian people, a domestic animal like the cat in could, on the ways of man and beast, bird or insect, as one tramped grown long and curved, like those of a caged bird, and become hooks by with its foot is like a man putting on his socks standing, and birds as man," like the British Tar--good all round. simple--just a plain pair of forceps, long and sharp-pointed like this is that when the bird lets down its head into the water, like a bird lives in trees or the air, looking down at the prowling cat or up But what four-footed thing can see like a bird? Monkeys taking to trees were like the birds, they scarcely needed ears. In a little book on the snakes of India, published many years ago by Dr. Nicholson of the Madras Medical Service, the conviction was expressed


id: 8729
title: The Dancing Mouse: A Study in Animal Behavior
author: Yerkes, Robert Mearns
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  The delicacy of brightness discrimination--Methods of testing the dancer''s ability to detect slight differences in brightness--Results of tests with Description of the behavior of the dancer in the discrimination box Does the dancer see colors?--The food-box method of testing color vision-Waugh''s food-box method--Results of tests--Tests by the use of colored The results obtained by Kishi in his study of the ear of the dancer differ number of experiments to test the hearing of both young and adult dancers. The results given in the white-black preference tests by ten males and ten brightness discrimination tests appear from this table: (1) black is LIGHT BLUE-ORANGE TESTS IN COLOR DISCRIMINATION BOX Tests of the dancer''s ability to discriminate green and blue[1] in the RESULTS OF LABYRINTH A TESTS WITH DANCERS perfect habit of choosing the white box, a series of training tests was dancers in white-black discrimination tests. dancers in white-black discrimination tests.


id: 7446
title: The Naturalist in La Plata
author: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
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  Land birds on the pampas are few in species and in numbers. majestic bird, before man came to lead the long chase now about to end Many large birds possessing great powers of flight are, when not The statement that birds instinctively fear man is frequently met with persecuted by man as long as, or longer than, any bird now existing on always finding their own living on the plain like wild birds, were, fear of man, acquired by experience, becomes instinctive in birds, in animal life relates to a habit of the larger species of dragon-flies other animals--insects, birds, and mammalians--the appearance of fire by summer, to a dry spot of ground like this, comes a small wasp, scarcely It has frequently been remarked that humming birds are more like insects passing near them, even on large birds like hawks and pigeons, is a Patagonia, where no other bird is seen, there are small species of


id: 33434
author: Waring, George
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  them leap at the same time, they appear, at a distance, like leaves squirrel, for like him he can climb trees well, though he cannot leap habitations at the foot of our squirrel''s great oak-tree. The two old squirrels had a great deal more talk upon this subject, but to see that, instead of appearing wet and miserable, like poor little His eyes were very small indeed, and looked like little black This curious, but beautiful little animal behaved exactly like a person "A very queer little fellow indeed, upon my word!" said Brush, "I by, but instead of sitting down like other animals, the queer little "I feel rather sleepy," said Brush, "but I have not seen the old fellow at home, by relating a little story which he had heard at different wild-cat or other enemy appeared, and the young squirrels began to

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  The Squirrels and other animals Or, Illustrations of the habits and instincts of many of the smaller British quadrupeds


id: 37151
title: Habits, Haunts and Anecdotes of the Moose and Illustrations from Life
author: Jones, Charles Albert
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  [Illustration: YOUNG BULL MOOSE NEAR RUSSELL POND. While paddling on Chesuncook Lake, one day, the guide saw a cow moose and "woo-oo-oo, woo-woo-oo" of the cow moose calling the bull. [Illustration: BULL MOOSE SWIMMING MUSQUOCOOK LAKE. [Illustration: LARGE BULL MOOSE ON MUD POND BROOK. death had taken place in a forest glade between a bull moose of eight [Illustration: BULL MOOSE IN DEEP SNOW. followed by his puffing guide, gradually came up to the moose. [Illustration: BULL MOOSE ON BLACK POND. [Illustration: BULL MOOSE ON BLACK POND. their guide to look for moose signs. [Illustration: COW AND CALF MOOSE LEAVING THE WATER. The guide thought the young moose would not come up [Illustration: YOUNG BULL AND COW MOOSE SWIMMING. I paddled him right up to a bull moose standing in the water one [Illustration: BULL MOOSE IN CARIBOU LAKE. [Illustration: BULL MOOSE IN CARIBOU LAKE. [Illustration: BULL AND COW MOOSE.


id: 33687
title: Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom
author: Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)
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  MAMMALIA, or sucking animals; as, man; bats, monkeys, bears, animal had probably travelled some distance to the place where he was Once, however, the animal escaped, and followed his master to the having discovered the retreat of the animal, takes his dog along with "In the year 1749," says Kahn, "one of these animals came near the farm yet, the moment the man''s voice was heard, the faithful animal set up This animal, which is the size of a large dog, belongs to Africa. piece for some time, and the ball fell before it reached the animal. himself; but the affectionate animal soon discovered his hiding-place, animals, with their heads and trunks just appearing above the water. animals in the night, they kept close within their houses till Some animal, it appeared, had taken fright at a dog, and, by a sudden dog, animal, or man, can approach the nest without being attacked.


id: 40459
title: Animal Intelligence The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV.
author: Romanes, George John
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  to say, if we observe an ant or a bee apparently exhibiting sympathy or This experiment left no doubt on my mind." In other cases the ants were The two marked ants, knowing their way, always took the right turn ants had well learnt their way, the box was turned half round as soon as Thus, for instance, the general fact that whenever an ant finds her way generally carried into the nest, if they were ants belonging to that quotes some observations of Latreille showing that ants display sympathy species carry them far away from the nest, or turn them into building ants belonging to three different species into a glass case with pupæ of the nests of ants.'' Sir John Lubbock also, and other observers whom we bird of this species, I shall quote the following observation of close observer of the habits of ants for many years, generally having


id: 42871
title: Wild Life Near Home
author: Sharp, Dallas Lore
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  the bank of a little stream, her head in the air, singing that long, holes, and squirrels sleep in true nests; but of the birds it can leafless tree to an abandoned bird''s nest, and fits this up for his every little while appeared large spots in the road, where some bird twilight of that far-off time, and the pine-tree lizard, or swift, is haunted the fields and woods at night he little knows their multitude Every one with wood ways knows the songs and nests of the more fence it; but as long as they plant orchards, bird life, at least, coming on, a tree at a time, looking and asking, in no hurry and in no Why do the wood-birds so persistently build their nests along the the sapling until the young birds flew away; then I bent the tree to [Illustration: "She melted away among the dark pines like a shadow."]


id: 44849
title: Colouration in Animals and Plants
author: Tylor, Alfred
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  this was due to the fact that in the lower, transparent, animals, colour differences of form, structure, colour, or habit, giving to the Natural science has shown us how the existing colouration of an animal uniform in colour, while the leopard is spotted, and the tiger striped. From a colouration point of view, we might readily divide the animal power of discriminating colours is possessed by the lower animals. that, on the one hand, a dark spot is often formed by the colouring cases of true decorative colouring in our sense of the term, for all by a spot, often of a different colour from the rest of the wing as in and this is especially the case with white or light coloured species. marked with colour, and we know of no case in which a pattern runs animals the colouring would still follow structural lines, and there


id: 44422
title: Eccentricities of the Animal Creation.
author: Timbs, John
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  Like all animals which live upon insects, the Ant-eaters are Society''s Great Ant-eater: the hinge-like manner in which the animal their young animal was their next anxiety; he liked neither fish, flesh, other observations, that certain animals, especially Birds, have not At this time the male bird goes to sea, and collects food for the nature is about to pass from the birds to the fishes. The bird lives on fish, which it darts upon from a considerable height. Birds and quadrupeds, and even fish, are the food of Owls, according to these birds finding food; and they may be observed at this time feeding fish upon which the birds prey go deep into the water during storms, the Fishes, like all other animals, have a very delicate sense of the Little fishes are ordinarily the food of larger marine animals; but a


