Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-08-17
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.
Physical Expressions Employed by AMI
mails 10 Manifest Their Feelings

PkyelcaI Expressions Employou ny A"'
mails 10 Manifest Their Feelings
The physical expressions which the
animals employ to manifest their pas
sions, requirements, distress and emo
tions are precisely similar to mans.
They caress with their lips and limbs,
show resentment by facial distortion,
bites and kicks, and fear by n tremor;
they leap with joy, loll with thirst lag
with fatigue, and attack for revenge
and reprlsal, Even fishes, with their
poor, deficient bodies, are ableto mani
fest many mental operations in a man
ner Ineligible to man as well ms each
other. There is no end to authenti-
Gated instances of animal sagacity, IN
dicating reconciliation, plan, purpose,
sense OF duty, prudence, gratitude,
method, judgment. Animals memorize'
They cherish malice, they dream in
their sleep, they can count, they have
a sense of injustice, a conscious
ness of error, and notions OF for
~giveness and reparation. | have seen
n brute OF a man requite the clumsy
caress Of his horse by a humping blow
on the nose. His supreme intelligence
did not comprehend the animals action,
forsooth. Now some mcn get veXod il
they are not readily understood. Did
this horse show temper-thls noble
animal whom Job represents as imbued
with the spirit Of tho tompostP Did he
sven resent the outraged Not by re-
taliation, although he plainly indicated
his keen sense of the indignity. What
may we suppose his emotions to have
bocn ut treatment 50 regardless and un-
%provokedP Yet he presently forgavo
all. Do not say that he forgot, for at
all times afterward he shrank with ap-
prehcnsion when his master ap-
preached. Oh, tho gcntlenoss, for
bearanco and long suffering Of the
brutos, who oftimcs grieye in silence
spoechloss and unable to utter protest
or complaint.
Animals mediate. Dogs have boon
seen to sit in a fit Of abstraction, so that
no one could engage their attention,
and presently start off with an impetus
which showed there wa 4 mental i'm
pulse bohind it. That was a keen
sense OF tlncsso displayed by the Now
foundland dog at a seaside resort, when
he pushed the little children off the
pier so that he could jump in magnani-
mously to the rescue, and thereby OBJ
tain the reward of a handful of candy
which he anticipated the grateful par
ents would bestow. He repeated the
trick so often that he fell into suspicion
and disgrace, but his method showed
not only conception Of the efficacy OF a
yirtuous act and its logical rccompcnso,
but tho advantage OF deception when
successfully practiccd. A crow which
! know of slammed hunger habitually,
so as to obtain more food, which he in
y0rlably carried of and hid in Il wall,
and then came back for more. In this
way he accumulated large boards of
prorender. A certain Java sparrow
was able TO distinguish tho click OF its
masters latch-iey in the hall door
from any other persons and flew to
meet him with demonstrations Of joy
as soon as he entered the house. lie
never made Il mistake. A sagacious
mastitf always pulled tho door-bcll
when he desired 10 enter. A parrot in
New Orleans seemed to answer quos-
catcgorically, and recognized dif-
fercnt persons, calling them by name.
Tho intelligence of insects is, perhaps,
even moro wonderful. Fishes exhibit
r markable ~sagacity. which has been
made the theme OF writer's for two thou
sand years. Forest and Stream.