The minds and manners of wild animals : a book of personal observations / by William T. Hornaday.

  • William Temple Hornaday
Date:
1922
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The minds and manners of wild animals : a book of personal observations / by William T. Hornaday. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    These Bolshevistic individuals commit misdemeanors and crimes such as are unknown in the wild state. One male ruminant out of perhaps fifty will turn murderer, and kill a female or a fawn, entirely contrary to the herd law; and at long intervals a male predatory animal kills his mate or young. Occasionally captivity warps wild animal or wild bird character quite out of shape, though it is a satisfaction to know that the total proportion of those so affected is very small. Long and close confinement in a prison-like home, filled with more daily cares and worries than any animal cage has of iron bars, has sent many a human wife and mother to an insane asylum; but the super-humanitarians who rail out at the existence of zoological parks and zoos are troubled by that not at all.