The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations

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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.
The wild animal must think, or die.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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Published May, 1922
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
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?