The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-12-22
influence Iof Man on Animals. d

+ 1T is quite obvious that the influence
OF man has been generally inimical to
the larger BEASTS and birds. The edi!
.beleY speciesi ;hel has killed off for food;
the carniyores he has killed of as com.
petitors and enemies Of his" own. B Tb
4 Britain aaloneIlwe have DESTROYED ,oi
driven away the urus, the reindeer, the
bear, the wolf." the Beaver and The
wild boar; whileime Ihaye almost exssr.
minated the bustard, the. seal and the
white cattle 0f Chilling Ham, and have
lately reintrcdpeed by artificial means
the long locally extinct capercailzie.
The red deer survives only .byy' tcaf6fyi]
preservation ;gthe fsllew deer is doubt,
\ fully Indigenous, the pheasant is an ac.
climatized alien. siiSo,, in iNew.z ea1and.
/ the Ma9gies had destroyed the, moa be-
fore white men reached the island In
Mauritius the dod6j Ionl Just lived on
long enough to be inaccurately de-
lscribed; in Behring Strait the peculiar
marine mammal allied to .'tEie rianatee
was killed off by. the earliest European
explorefs9i The dwalrusu andothe sea-
even n9Nl thyesasttta,n9 ssttta,n 9to beceme extinct;
| the European seas are getting fshed
| outi the bis0n' and theIpeccafy will asoon
be drivenI9ut nof ,Ameries; the, wapita
is even now becoming scarcer eversy
year. Inishors. infahfis and has ALWAYS
been, e4terminating :, all the larger ami
fnaas everywhere, and we may even
question howl nohsiiasfAbie atEpaifs he
may, haye borne in the destruction of
some among the great extinct creatures
OF the 4natenaryIperiodlo dlo0He has sia
most certainly killed off the reindeer. in
its wild FORM and Tie may have as
sisted thes giacial epoehoiH killing pfa
se sns fRR8SsfJS %SSss SfSss Ss1F a snS sBs
pears, the large beastsahds birds bs8in
csessuras fhhs hs mi! hslbiesssI eise4SI Il smal
PROPORTION; to their smanness.ooHeIea
40 little against the ,sugar-cane rat or
the, ordinary ni0use; still less aagaifisp
the ,army5Morm. .arothes seyeDteen y ear
locust, and almost, nothing, it would
seem against The phylioxera ~ tfie'C cor
orado heetae. ssAhA when ghel eomesTte
deal with the. microscopic Organisms
(which invadet his very Veins s.ss Y chow
Jack or syPhoid faNsEs itGappears that
|. his best change lies in actually intro
edneing ashfaA colony of ] the enenfyiini
attenuated and ,eompA ratiyelY inuecuous
forms into his, own system. On the
other hand IL does HetffoHow thAt mi
vefsal civilization or lthe general estab,
lishment OF the highest existing type7 To 71,f 81
man ovAr Ithe ~lole world will neces.l
sarify lead to. the total extinction Of all
the larger birds and mammals. There
can be httle doubt that many muss poi
--the lions, Tigers, pumas AND. jaguaEs,
which indeed are already disappearing:
the .hippopotamus, the rhinocgr0sy
bison and perhaps, ,ayene the, whale,
which are not likely TO be artifciai1y
lpreservedj Butamahyi haTesbeeh land.
will be spared, because. here again the,
action Of man differs widely 'ffoiii that
OF. the hover animalsi,O Alone among
earniv0r2us creatures he has intelli,
gence ei1ough to preserve some of each
useful tkinrh for 3bfeediugaEnetloq oquite;
alone among .herblvorous and frugivor-
GUS species, he Keeps q little Ut ieach edi-
Bile plant fort seed. tdf seemsnprebAble 10.
that certain highly specialized early
types, such as the sabfe-t -toothed 'lioris,s
have baeome9enincts through the too
absolute perfection of their. carnivorous
structure.l They were 3h peculiariyf
adapted; ;forIikilliug the large iaammels,
Of their own period; and when they had
succeeded ii killing off tie whole 'racc,a
they died out themselves for want of
food, because they were too specialized
in their enormous sabreilike tethEand
heavy heads .ste. compete. with. other,
and lighter types. of cats such as the
ordinary lions hhd tigers, in the parsaitl
9f smaller preYI ike deer and antelopes,
pastoral stage, ahes does not eat up all
the animals which he. can geta he do,
mesticates some OF them, and only kills
those siperfltionso ones which he, does
notneed for breeding purposes, 1T is.
this stage which really marks the diff
ference between what WE call. natural
and artificial selection, Man. the
hunter, scarcely differs much from other
animals in his influence upon the gem
eral fauna, except in, 50. far ae he picks
off the very best and largest Of each
kind; with pastoral and Sagricu4urai.
man we rise. to q new Jewel, where the
useful kinds are definitely and coli
sciously selected and favored instaafif
of being ,ruthlessly destroyed, Hence
forth animals and plants survive, not
because they are inedible, but becansBs
they are edlh1lelIPa4 1 la Agn &c frsettso Il ttsoi i
~ 1oAsNoTel Surgical ,Job.ot ssiInr,
A delicate,land sndveIsoparation was
performed at the hospital this, morning
on John Farrell: Eleven years ago
Farrell. who came to Troy from Omaha,
swallowed two false teeth and tlt, rril,a