. Domesticated animals : their relation to man and to his advancement in civilization. Domestic animals. THE DOG 17 more sympathetic with other Hfe the animal is likely to become. Thus the elephants, whose natural endowments in the way of intelligence are perhaps superior to those of any other wild creatures, are, when brought into captivity, curi- ously prone to form attachments to human beings. Savages appear to make but little use of their dogs in hunting. In fact, those peculiar combinations of instinct and training. Spaniel Retrieving Wild Duck which we find in our hounds, pointers, sette
. Domesticated animals : their relation to man and to his advancement in civilization. Domestic animals. THE DOG 17 more sympathetic with other Hfe the animal is likely to become. Thus the elephants, whose natural endowments in the way of intelligence are perhaps superior to those of any other wild creatures, are, when brought into captivity, curi- ously prone to form attachments to human beings. Savages appear to make but little use of their dogs in hunting. In fact, those peculiar combinations of instinct and training. Spaniel Retrieving Wild Duck which we find in our hounds, pointers, setters, and other dogs which have been bred to serve the purposes of sportsmen, have been acquired but slowly, and are of no value except where the search for game is carried on under what we may term civilized conditions. The dog of the savage is in all countries much like his master—a creature with few arts and unaccustomed to subdue his rude native impulses. It seems most likely that for ages the principal use of the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 1841-1906. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
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