| Show THE ESCAPE INSTINCT in a review of an interesting work by prof We iemann lemann on heredity in man and beasy beast in tb sunday times of july 31 it Is ir remarked that the author believes the escape instinct has ha been lost in domesticated animals by their long domestication the absence of enemies during many having had bad the effect of extinguishing this natural fear of the human ram race and they evince no desire to escape from the closest acquaintance with my long experience as ae a brow breeder er of al kinds of farm took stock including dogs and c ts ta and aad other small mali animals convinces convince me that this belief la Is not founded on OB tack fact says a correspondent of the now new york blos but that this thia natural fear to is as an active in young domestic animals animal as it is in wild ani male with the exception that in imitation of the parents the fear disappears this is in true of the hone horse mule calf lamb turkey chicken dog oat cat and rabbit in alt W of which this natural desire to escape from a person Is ii as ae strong for a few days day and until acquaintance has haa eliminated the natural fear a an in the wild animals animal of the same ame races the hiding of the young animal by the dam to is an example of this instinct tive fear even on ta the e part of the parent who is ia evidently id antly loath to expose her progeny to risk this thin Is i clearly instinctive for I 1 have known one of the gentlest hei heffers heifers fers when she abe had bad a calf to make a sudden attack upon the person who had bad reared her and fed her and exhibit the most violent ferocity when hen persons persona previously entirely acceptable cep table approached her all kinds of domestic animate animals will conceal their young at birta and the young animals will flee bee with evident fear when the owner comes upon their hiding place and although this thin natural repugnance will soon disappear it is only through the introduction as an it were of the parent who at the same sam time anxiously regards the owner as the lofti ble enemy to the foal or calf I 1 have known a two iwo daye old calf when its i hiding biding place was discovered to run ran four miles lilies in its effort to esc aMand resist resift I 1 capture with all the energy of a wild deer and when it afterward es plunged into a pond and aad swam ova several vera hundred feet and got away qa the other side A pigs born in the woods becomer becomes wild ard ferocious the first gonera generation tIpa as the true wild boar and there ire thousands thousand of such pigs at large in the southern loois that resemble in their chstr disposition in every respect the wild boars baars of the black forest of gw many the natural habit of the in to kick is an attribute of this anstin instinct A young mule male will kiok kiek its own quite fiercely when it is fiut filat able abb t stand bland upon its ita logs legs and will hide behind the mare and even bite whee I 1 is approached too closely the lama a of a flock dock at large on a range rang at equally a terse averse to the shepherd an will escape from close until use has helped to wear off t th instinctive fear the we eole difficulty in rearing youad you turkeys turkey is this same instinctive 0 position to escape and hide even in 14 the yard the young brood will ill squat u at closely as a wild brood or a covey cov y e young partridges or quail and if aba th observer still they will creep away as stealthily through the grass grams or leaves and in a moment will disappear as thou though ill the ground had swallowed them I 1 have hare some young eats cats the kittens of 1 a oat cat left at my home six yra yeara ago 0 0 but which un my return a few w geeki ago came up voluntarily and after aft close recognize d and came up and rubbed against legs and purred loudly she wi friendly that we the next morning OB way to the train tor lor the city e she h he tr t r I 1 to follow until ordered to return rolar i remembered her old habit hab whish which w wt s to accompany me to the turn of tt tb road and there wait until I 1 was out ut sight night if domestication ha bal the aff e 0 of the natural effort to s cape one would think that this oat an kittens would be the tam estand loot least de d sirous to avoid a person with whom whoa th the mother oat cat was friendly but qui quite otherwise these them kittens are the wild set est I 1 have ever known and now two mon mouths the old they are as prone to emp in the thickest of the shrubbery as an t tag wild rabbits when they are too closely I 1 E even ivan the young chickens evince eyl nee th same instinct especially those of more active and least sociable b roe d as leghorns Leg horns borns and other flighty k kinder nd the hens conceal their nests with a the instinctive adroitness of the hilj wl birds the young chickens chio keas run away 0 hide an those from the hidden aeeti nee are by jar ar the wildest I 1 why is all this it if it is not the in stindt of fear that still overcomes al I 1 the centuries of domestication 11 cati on on an proves the fact that the escape I 1 P evacile over the influence of do domeij 03 ON ti cation which is an education slow al OW PI gained and which has not yet had tim to become an inherited instinct an am this opens the question do domestic tion and education ever overcome I 1 ij but to is not natural hnatin f always prevalent in an animal a at birth and only slowly 0 avei v a come by training in some boole ani anima more slowly or more easily than I 1 othen |
