The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals

By Hornaday, William Temple

Book Id: WPLBN0000635015
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Title:	The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals
Author:	Hornaday, William Temple
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
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.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals, 1 -- William T. Hornaday, 1 -- Preface, 2 -- MAN AND THE WILD ANIMALS, 3 -- I. A SURVEY OF THE FIELD, 3 -- I. THE LAY OF THE LAND, 3 -- II. WILD ANIMAL TEMPERAMENT AND INDIVIDUALITY, 9 -- III. THE LANGUAGE OF WILD ANIMALS, 14 -- IV. THE MOST INTELLIGENT ANIMALS, 22 -- V. THE RIGHTS OF WILD ANIMALS, 26 -- II. MENTAL TRAITS OF WILD ANIMALS, 29 -- VI. THE BRIGHTEST MINDS AMONG AMERICAN ANIMALS, 29 -- VII. KEEN BIRDS AND DULL MEN, 32 -- VIII. THE MENTAL STATUS OF THE ORANG?UTAN, 36 -- IX. THE MAN?LIKENESS OF THE CHIMPANZEE, 41 -- X. THE TRUE MENTAL STATUS OF THE GORILLA, 47 -- XI. THE MIND OF THE ELEPHANT, 51 -- XII. THE MENTAL AND MORAL TRAITS OF BEARS, 63 -- XIII. MENTAL TRAITS OF A FEW RUMINANTS, 72 -- XIV. MENTAL TRAITS OF A FEW RODENTS, 80 -- XV. THE MENTAL TRAITS OF BIRDS, 86 -- III. THE HIGHER PASSIONS, 109 -- XVIII. THE MORALS OF WILD ANIMALS, 109 -- XIX. THE LAWS OF THE FLOCKS AND THE HERDS, 112 -- XX. PLAYS AND PASTIMES OF ANIMALS, 116 -- XXI. COURAGE IN WILD ANIMALS, 120 -- IV. THE BASER PASSIONS, 129 -- XXII. FEAR AS A RULING PASSION, 129 -- XXIII. FIGHTING AMONG WILD ANIMALS, 134 -- XXIV. WILD ANIMAL CRIMINALS AND CRIME, 140 -- XXV. FIGHTING WITH WILD ANIMALS, 148 -- THE CURTAIN, 153 -- The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals -- i