Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-12-01
ANIMAL AZ III PAThtEs.
Ihey Arc = Numerous - tho Instinc*ivo
Disltkes OF Men -. Us + s&:

s>tst = = ~ laQ loT companion
q gentleman, now dead, who was a
dwarf. and walked with crutches.
AS soon as the tiger saw him he
dashed his tail and finally stood up
on his hind legs 4 against ,s.ii1 the bars,
and remained in q state Of great ex-
element. We who saw it at the
time were much struck = by the
sight; though whether it's, behavior,
were. due to alarm or curiosity we
could not tell. : Probably the tigers
excitement was due to neither,
but to the latent antipathy which
many animals feel for anything alb
normal, either in their own species,
or even among others with which
they are well acquainted. :. It is the
feeling which prompts storks OF Of
rocks to destroy at once the young
of other birds which. are Matched
from eggs placed in: their nests and
dogs to bark at cripples or ragged
beggars, or, as in, this case, reused
the dislike Of an observant ZOO tiger
who saw men of normal size and
proportions pass every day before
it's cage. !
The belief in permanent antipa-
thies among animals is very ancient.
1t appears in all the monkish ter
tiaries. There the otter. is always
the enemy of the crocodile, and the
unicorn of the elephant; while the
dragon is hated by the hart; and in
turn dislikes all beasts, including
the panther, whose exquisite per
tune, SO agreeable to all other ami
mails, disgusts the dragon, who runs
away the moment he smells it.
Turning from legend to facts, we
find that animal antipathies have a
range as wide or wider than the in
stinctive dislikes of men. They are
in part exactly the same in kind as
the latter, one animal exciting in
another exactly the same disgust
that baboon or a black: beetle does
in the minds of many human, beings,
but the list of hereditary enemies
Of one species which is the sworn
foe of another, and. has left in the
weaker species an inbred and an
Gent sense Of horror and fear-is
far longer than the list of hereditary
enemies of the dominant species
man. ~.-.:--~. :: So -: - +
Instances of purely instructive,
inexplicable antipathy are naturally
the least common, but they are very
marked, and defnite examples. It is
quite impossible, for instance, to &C.
count for the intense disgust which
the camel excites in horses. They
have been associated in many coun-
tries for centuries in the common
service of man, and early training
makes the horse acquiesce in the
proximity the creature,@ which
.disgusts him: Otherwise it is far
more difficult to accustom horses to
work with: camels than with. ':ele-
plants, precisely because the repug-
nance is a natural antipathy and
not a reasoned fear. They get used
to tho sight of an elephant. but the
smell of camel disgusts and fright
ems them. English horses which
have never seen a camel refuse to
approach ground where they have
stood. Recentlytt:a travelling me-
nagerie was refused leave to encamp
on village green in Suffolk, not
because it was not welcome-for a
wild. beast show is always vastly
popular but because the>green was
also the site OLA market, and the
farmers gig: horses invariably re-
fused to be driven across it af. :4:
camels had stood there. Yet last
week two bears were: being exhib-
tied in Harley street, and no horse
showed any fear Of them. One
horse almost touched the larger
bear, but neither:it nor the team Of
four in hand which passed showed
any nervousness. London specta-
tor. -.