SIMILAR BEHAVIOR IN COW AND MAN WITH A 



NOTE ON EMOTION 



C. S. YOAKUM 



The University of Texas 



The two incidents herein described present features of such 

 similarity that they seem worthy of record among investigations 

 bearing on comparative problems and especially among state- 

 ments concerning instinctive (?) tendencies. 



Fig. 1 



Fig. 1 gives the essential features in the setting of the first 

 incident. The Jersey cow was walking along the side of the 

 road toward us, near the position marked A, when the light of 

 the automobile at B, first disclosed her presence. As the car 

 approached her, going in a straight line as indicated, she turned 

 in an easy curve, not abruptly, and walked in the direction indi- 

 cated. The distance across the road was relatively short, so that 

 by the time the car reached her, the driver was forced to swerve 



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