. Kennel secrets : how to breed, exhibit, and mannage dogs . this force that man becomes so truly om-nivorous ; and that inferior animals can do the sameabundant evidence has been offered in the results ofexperiments, which have shown that in respect to foodchanges in their nature have been effected and evenhereditary forms of body suited to the altered conditionsinduced and perpetuated. Cats, for instance, have accom-modated themselves to a mixed diet and become similarin form to the herbivorous or vegetable-eating animals byconsiderable increase in length of their bowels over othermembers of
. Kennel secrets : how to breed, exhibit, and mannage dogs . this force that man becomes so truly om-nivorous ; and that inferior animals can do the sameabundant evidence has been offered in the results ofexperiments, which have shown that in respect to foodchanges in their nature have been effected and evenhereditary forms of body suited to the altered conditionsinduced and perpetuated. Cats, for instance, have accom-modated themselves to a mixed diet and become similarin form to the herbivorous or vegetable-eating animals byconsiderable increase in length of their bowels over othermembers of their family yet untamed. It is certainly not reasonable to suppose that this powerto accommodate to altered conditions in the matter of dietand to assimilate their forms is denied all animals but from it, it is easier to believe that it can be acquiredby all v;arm-blood animals, and that many of them thatare now either purely flesh-eaters or vegetable-eaterswould become omnivorous had they wits to aid themor were they educated up to the j--.«E?Wr:- -sraMep:;
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