. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. es. Thehead of the English bird is relatively small,and it is essential with breeders that heshall stand erect and hold his wings pressedtightly against his body. Our breedersinsist that a pair of pouters must produceyoung with legs and feet exactly similar tothe fixed type. Singular to say, the maleand female obey his behest so implicitlythat their young as they develop have legs,feet, and claws of the exact prescribedlength, while all their other points arebrought to a preordained perfection thatis nothing short of miraculou
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. es. Thehead of the English bird is relatively small,and it is essential with breeders that heshall stand erect and hold his wings pressedtightly against his body. Our breedersinsist that a pair of pouters must produceyoung with legs and feet exactly similar tothe fixed type. Singular to say, the maleand female obey his behest so implicitlythat their young as they develop have legs,feet, and claws of the exact prescribedlength, while all their other points arebrought to a preordained perfection thatis nothing short of miraculous. The French pouter and the Brunner breedhave become of late quite serious rivals tothe other species of pouter pigeons. Of what use are these strange-looking pouters 1 Solely, it appears, to furnish proof of the power of man to interfere with the nature of animals by steady and reflective application of breeding experiments. We have here a monstrous transformation, which renders the creature unfit for any natural use to which it might be put. Nevertheless, such. ^^y^ The Almond Pigeon changes can be so confirmed as to give, in theend, hereditary quahties. Pigeons used forscientific experiments, especially the pouter PIGEONS 293 pigeons,t<i iiroN-cand tlie have boon of use to mon like Darwintheir theories on selection, descent])o\ver of experiments. The employment of pigeons as messengerscomes from their facult\- of finding their homesand returning to them hum very great dis-tances. Though many other domestic animalsha\e the same gift, yet their unerring choicethe jjoutors we must mention the ca- of the right direction, the rapidity of their]5igeons, the best known of which are flight above countries completely unknown to VI. Species. Messen(;hk Pkieons Afterruncular
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