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The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations By: William Temple Hornaday (1854-1937) |
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THE MINDS AND MANNERS OF WILD ANIMALS A BOOK OF PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS BY WILLIAM T. HORNADAY, Sc.D., A.M. DIRECTOR OF THE NEW YORK
ZOOLOGICAL PARK. AUTHOR OF "THE AMERICAN NATURAL HISTORY," "TWO
YEARS IN THE JUNGLE," "CAMP FIRES IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES," "OUR
VANISHING WILD LIFE," ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS The wild animal must think, or die. "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY WILLIAM T. HORNADAY Printed in the United States of America The right of translation is reserved Published May, 1922
TO THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK, WHOSE SAFETY
DEPENDS UPON THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF THE MINDS OF WILD ANIMALS, THIS VOLUME
IS DEDICATED AS A TOKEN OF APPRECIATION AND REGARD
CONTENTS
I. A SURVEY OF THE FIELD
I. THE LAY OF THE LAND
II. WILD ANIMAL TEMPERAMENT & INDIVIDUALITY
III. THE LANGUAGE OF ANIMALS
IV. THE MOST INTELLIGENT ANIMALS
V. THE RIGHTS OF WILD ANIMALS
II. MENTAL TRAITS OF WILD ANIMALS
VI. THE BRIGHTEST MINDS AMONG ANIMALS
VII. KEEN BIRDS AND DULL MEN
VIII. THE MENTAL STATUS OF THE ORANG UTAN
IX. THE MAN LIKENESS OF THE CHIMPANZEE
X. THE TRUE MENTAL STATUS OF THE GORILLA
XI. THE MIND OF THE ELEPHANT
XII. THE MENTAL AND MORAL TRAITS OF BEARS
XIII. MENTAL TRAITS OF A FEW RUMINANTS
XIV. MENTAL TRAITS OF A FEW RODENTS
XV. THE MENTAL TRAITS OF BIRDS
XVI. THE WISDOM OF THE SERPENT
XVII. THE TRAINING OF WILD ANIMALS
III. THE HIGHER PASSIONS
XVIII. THE MORALS OF WILD ANIMALS
XIX. THE LAWS OF THE FLOCKS AND HERDS
XX. PLAYS AND PASTIMES OF WILD ANIMALS
XXI. COURAGE IN WILD ANIMALS
IV. THE BASER PASSIONS
XXII. FEAR AS A RULING PASSION
XXIII. FIGHTING AMONG WILD ANIMALS
XXIV. WILD ANIMAL CRIMINALS AND CRIME
XXV. FIGHTING WITH WILD ANIMALS
THE CURTAIN.
PREFACE
During these days of ceaseless conflict, anxiety and unrest among
men, when at times it begins to look as if "the Caucasian" really is
"played out," perhaps the English reading world will turn with a sigh
of relief to the contemplation of wild animals. At all events, the
author has found this diversion in his favorite field mentally
agreeable and refreshing. In comparison with some of the alleged men who now are cursing this
earth by their baneful presence, the so called "lower animals" do not
seem so very "low" after all! As a friend of the animals, this is a
very proper time in which to compare them with men. Furthermore, if
thinking men and women desire to know the leading facts concerning the
intelligence of wild animals, it will be well to consider them now,
before the bravest and the best of the wild creatures of the earth go
down and out under the merciless and inexorable steam roller that we
call Civilization. The intelligence and the ways of wild animals are large subjects.
Concerning them I do not offer this volume as an all in all production.
Out of the great mass of interesting things that might
have been included, I have endeavored to select and set forth only
enough to make a good series of sample exhibits, without involving the
general reader in a hopelessly large collection of details. The most
serious question has been: What shall be left out? Mr. A. R. Spofford, first Librarian of Congress, used to declare that
"Books are made from books"; but I call the reader to bear witness that
this volume is not a mass of quotations. A quoted authority often can
be disputed, and for this reason the author has found considerable
satisfaction in relying chiefly upon his own testimony. Because I always desire to know the opinions of men who are
writing upon their own observations, I have felt free to express my own
conclusions regarding the many phases of animal intelligence as their
manifestation has impressed me in close up observations... Continue reading book >>
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