The Reasoning Power in Animals

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Reeve & Company, 1867 - 471 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 9 - It cannot be imitation ; for though you hatch a crow under 10 a hen, and never let it see any of the works of its own kind, the nest it makes shall be the same, to the laying of a stick, with all the other nests of the same species.
الصفحة 77 - Dog ran to him with impetuosity, seized him by the coat, and would not suffer him to pass. The pieman, who understood what the animal wanted, showed him a penny, and pointed to his master, who stood at the street-door and saw what was going on.
الصفحة 55 - The next day when he was brought, and heard the doctor's voice, he laid down of himself, placed his enormous head on one side, curled up his trunk, drew in his breath just like a man about to endure an operation, gave a sigh of relief when it was over, and then, by trunk and gestures, evidently wished to express his gratitude.
الصفحة 58 - He then returned cautiously and slowly to the point at which he had issued from the wood, from whence he came back with five other elephants, with which he proceeded, somewhat less slowly than before, to within a few yards of the tank, where he posted them as patrols. He then re-entered the wood and collected the whole herd, which must have amounted to between eighty and a hundred, and led them across the open ground with the most extraordinary composure and quiet till they came up to the five .sentinels,...
الصفحة 97 - She had been taken in travail on those hills; and how the poor beast had contrived to manage the drove in her state of suffering is beyond human calculation, for her road lay through sheep the whole way. Her master's heart smote him when he saw what she had suffered and effected : but she was nothing daunted ; and having deposited...
الصفحة 397 - I shall die ;" and then continues laughing more violently than before. Her crying and sobbing are curious, and if you say, " Poor Poll, what is the matter...

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