. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. Evolution; Natural selection; Heredity; Human beings; Sexual selection in animals; Sexual dimorphism (Animals); Sex differences. 620 THE DESCENT OF MAN. proJBiting by being peculiarly colored. He raised from fifty to sixty white and brown piebald rabbits in a large walled orchard; and he had at the same time some similarly colored cats in his house. Such cats^ as I have often noticed, are very conspicuous during the day; but, as they. Fig. 70. Tragelaphus scriptus, maie (from the Knowsley Menagerie). used to lie in watch during the dusk a
. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. Evolution; Natural selection; Heredity; Human beings; Sexual selection in animals; Sexual dimorphism (Animals); Sex differences. 620 THE DESCENT OF MAN. proJBiting by being peculiarly colored. He raised from fifty to sixty white and brown piebald rabbits in a large walled orchard; and he had at the same time some similarly colored cats in his house. Such cats^ as I have often noticed, are very conspicuous during the day; but, as they. Fig. 70. Tragelaphus scriptus, maie (from the Knowsley Menagerie). used to lie in watch during the dusk at the mouths of tK burrows, the rabbits apparently did not distinguish themj from their party-colored brethren. The result was tliat, within eighteen months, every one of these party-colored rabbits was destroyed; and there was evidence that this was effected by the cats. Color seems to be advantageous to another animal, the skunk, in a manner of which we have had many instances in other classes. No animal will voluntarily attack one of these creatures on account of the ireadful odor which it emits when irritated; but during 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 Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. New York : A. L. Burt
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