34 MAN THE ANIMAL 



To keep your place. 

 To chase away flies. 

 To size up an enemy. 

 To drink plenty of water. 

 To be faithful unto death. 

 To be a dependable friend. 

 To take plenty of exercise. 

 To express pleasure when favored. 

 To speak up when you want anything. 

 To stay where it's warm in winter and cool in summer. 

 To guard faithfully the interests of those who care 

 for you. 



This list could obviously be almost indefinitely extended to 

 include not only items common to human and animal behavior 

 in relation to alimentary and excretory functions, sex and re- 

 production, but also a great deal of what is often naively re- 

 garded as "higher" sorts of behavior. Every young man and 

 woman is pleased to think that they have made novel dis- 

 coveries peculiar and perhaps even "sacred" to themselves in 

 the technique of the art of making love. This is, alas, only a 

 delusion, albeit a nearly universal one. If a sort of super-tele- 

 vision-dictaphone apparatus were available for an objective sta- 

 tistical investigation of the matter it would be found that in 

 their amatory behavior the Whitechapel costermonger and 

 his lady say and do pretty much about the same things as the 

 dainty denizens of Mayfair. This is because human courtship 

 behavior stems from deep mammalian roots. The proof of this 

 cannot be undertaken in a public lecture, but must be left for 

 the seminar and laboratory. But no one of an observant and 

 philosophic trend of mind, who was brought up on a farm, will 

 require pedantic documentation on the point. 



Dogs, like humans, do "express pleasure when favored," as 

 every dog lover knows. Dogs, however, have very feeble powers 

 for the discrimination of motives behind the "favors" vouchsafed 

 them J or for understanding clearly the consequences foreseen 



