The Human Side of Animals, by Royal Dixon pdf

[...]... Colours) The Indians claim that the mother bison forced her calf to roll often in a puddle of red clay, so that it might be indistinguishable 6 against its clay background The zebra is one of the cleverest of camouflagers The black-and-white stripes of his body give the effect of sunlight passing through bushes Monkeys are the most musical of all animals When they congregate for "concerts," as some of the. .. berries or grapes, they roll in them, then hurry home with the food attached to their quills The black bear is not one of the great migrating animals The thickness of his coat must therefore change with the seasons Rabbits seem to have a well- 173 188 devised system in their roadbuilding, running their paths in and out of underbrush in a truly ingenious manner The mongoose, a scavenger of the worst type,... Diplodocus The prehistoric animals, also, 189 202 undoubtedly had their scavengers and criminals 203 The Esquimo-dog is man's greatest friend in the Far North 218 Chipmunks are among the most easily tamed of man's wild friends, and they even seem fond of human companionship 219 Men cruelly take the lives of these denizens of the wildwood, rejoicing in their slaughter, but the animal soul they cannot... class? Why should we fall into the colossal ignorance and conceit of cataloging every humanlike action of animals under the word "instinct"? Man delights in thinking of himself as only a little lower than the angels Then why should he not consider the animals as only a little lower than himself? The poet has truly said that "the beast is the mirror of man as man is the mirror of God." Man had to battle... a little less degree by an African ape when his mate is shot dead by a Christian missionary The grandmother sheep that watches her numerous little lamb grandchildren on the hillside, while their mothers are away grazing, is just as mindful of their care as any human grandparent could be One drop of water is like the ocean; and love is love The trouble with science is that too often it leaves out love... Rocky Mountain goat has many means of 122 123 defence, not the least of which is his agility in climbing to inaccessible places Wild boars are among the most ferocious of animals By means of their great strength alone they are well able to defend themselves Brontosaurus The animals that seemed best 134 135 equipped to defend themselves are the ones that, thousands of years ago, became extinct This prehistoric... with a pair of strong horns but with a shield back of them as well The beaver is the greatest of all animal architects 144 145 His skill is equalled only by his patience (in Colours) The skunk mother tries to keep on hand a good supply of such delicacies as frogs and toads, so that her young may never go hungry The porcupine and the hedgehog have a unique method of collecting food for 158 172 their young... distinguish whether a herd of sheep is guarded by one or more dogs, and will plan his attack 85 94 accordingly The zebu, the sacred bull of India, in spite of its domestication, has an agile body and a quick, alert mind Roosevelt's Colobus These horse-tailed monkeys chatter together in a language exclusively their own, yet they seem to have no 95 112 difficulty in making themselves understood by other monkeytribes... of theirs which, if performed by children, would come under the head of wisdom and intelligence, I have classified as such Life is one throughout The love that fills a mother's heart when she sees her firstborn babe, is also felt by the mother bear, only in a different way, when she sees her baby cubs playing before her humble cave dwelling The sorrow that is felt by the human heart when a beloved one... An armour-bearer of prehistoric times whose shield was an effective protection against enemy horns To the polar bear the ice and snow of the Far North means warmth and protection The mother bear digs herself into a snowbank, where lives quite 51 84 comfortably throughout the winter The sharp claws of the ground squirrel are efficacious tools in digging his cosy underground burrow The coyote can readily . IT IS AMONG CHILDREN. THE HUMAN SIDE OF ANIMALS BY ROYAL DIXON AUTHOR OF " ;THE HUMAN SIDE OF PLANTS," " ;THE HUMAN SIDE OF TREES," " ;THE HUMAN SIDE OF BIRDS," ETC. WITH.