The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-12-03
TIE ANIMAL KINGDOM.


physical Expressions Employed by AMI
mails to Manifest Their Feelings.
The physical expressions which the
animals employ to manifest their pas
sions, requirements, distress and emo |
lions are precisely similar to mans.
They caress with their lips and limbs,
show resentment by facial distortion,
bites and kicks, and fear by a tremor;
they leap with JOY, loll with thirst, lag
with fatigue, and attack for revenge
and reprisal. Even fishes, with their
poor, deficient bodies, are able to mani
fest many mental operations in man.
ner ineligible to man as well as each
other. There is no end to authenti-
Gated instances of animal sagacity, in
dicating generalization, 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. l have seen
a brute of man requite the clumsy
caress of his horse by humping blow
on the nose. His supreme intelligence
did not comprehend the animals action,
forsooth. Now some men get vexed If
they are not readily understood. Did
this horse show temper-this noble
animal whom JOB represents as imbued
with the spirit of the tempest? Did he
even 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
been at treatment so regardless and I'M
provoked? Yet he presently forgave
all Do not say that he forgot, for at
all times afterward he shrank with APP
prehension when his master ap-
preached. Oh, the gentleness, for
bearance and long suffering of the
brutes, who oftimes grieve in silence
speeches. and unable to utter protest
or complaint.
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 was mental i'm
pulse behind it. That was a keen
sense of finesse displayed by the New
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 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
virtuous act and it's logical recompense,
but the advantage of deception when
successfully practiced. A crow which
/ know of slammed hunger habitually,
so as to obtain more food, which he in
variably carried off and hid in wall,
and then came back for more. In this
way he accumulated large boards Of
provender. A certain Java sparrow
was able to distinguish the click of its
masters latoh-key in the hall door
from any other PERSONS and flew to
meet him with demonstrations of joy
as soon as he entered the house. He
never made a mistake. A sagacious
mastiff always pulled the door-bell
when he desired to enter. A parrot in
New Orleans seemed to answer ques-
tons categorically, and recognized diff
ferent persons. calling them by name.
The intelligence of insects is, perhaps,
even moro wonderful. Fishes exhibit
remarkable sagacity, which has been
made the theme of writers for two thou
sand years. Forest and Stream.