This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...sometimes practiced among wolves; field mice when they fall into a trap devour one another; rats do the same; porpoises and rabbits have been known to do likewise even when they have plenty to eat; once in a while a dog will kill another dog. But with cannibalism goes infanticide. The female of the crocodile sometimes eats those of her young who do not know how to swim. As among barbarous peoples, so among civilized, there has been infanticide on account of bodily deformity. There are birds who break their eggs and destroy their nests; monkeys who dash the heads of their young against a tree when they are tired of carrying them. Cats, hares, and dogs furnish the equivalents of infanticide, and the young of foxes practice parricide. There is in animals, as in men, an irresistible impulse for over-excitement of passions. The patient dromedaries when agitated become furious, trample those who trouble them under their feet, but, having satisfied their vengeance, they become quiet again; in such cases the Arabs throw their clothes at the dromedary and let him vent his rage on these. In certain species of ants the warriors, after a combat, are possessed with a sort of fury and fight everything in their way; they even attack the slaves, who strive to calm them by seizing them by the legs and holding them firm until their anger is over. In a quarrel between the bears in a zoological garden at Cologne, the female becoming exhausted, the male held it under water until it was drowned, and then dragged it around to make sure of its death. In northern Scotland troops of cows have been known to put their guilty companions to death. Magnan has seen the most docile dogs, by continued use of alcoholic drinks, become mischievous. Lombroso has observed a...