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Ways of Nature

Ways of Nature

Burroughs, John

Paperback

Gifts & Stationery GeneralGeneral NatureZoology

ISBN10: 1490358633
ISBN13: 9781490358635
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 5 2013
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Excerpt: ...have a certain association of ideas; one thing suggests another to them, as with us. This fact is made use of by animal-trainers. I Pg 142 can easily believe the story Charles St. John tells of the fox he saw waylaying some hares, and which, to screen himself the more completely from his quarry, scraped a small hollow in the ground and threw up the sand about it. But if St. John had said that the fox brought weeds or brush to make himself a blind, as the hunter often does, I should have discredited him, just as I discredit the observation of a man quoted by Romanes, who says that jackals, ambushing deer at the latter's watering-place, deliberately wait till the deer have filled themselves with water, knowing that in that state they are more easily run down and captured! President Roosevelt, in The Wilderness Hunter,

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