154 PECULIAR SOUNDS OF ANIMALS. 



and its fondness for those who have been kind to 

 it is sometimes very great. A cat is said to have 

 descended a chimney in order to get at her impri- 

 soned master. 



Elephants, horses, cows, pigs, and indeed al- 

 most all quadrupeds have different tones in which 

 they express their several wants and feelings. It 

 would be endless to particularize the whole of 

 them, but I may mention the sheep. It has been 

 asserted that in a large flock of these animals, the 

 tones of each are so distinct, that the lambs readily 

 recognize the voice of their respective mothers. 

 When they have been separated, even for a short 

 time only, they evince the greatest joy at meeting 

 again. 



In immense forests where animals of different 

 sexes separate, or are few in number, and where 

 their calls would not be heard, an extraordinary 

 facility has been afforded them of finding each 

 other. This many of them do, as the pine- 

 martin, civet, skunk, and other musky animals, 

 by rubbing themselves against trees, thus leaving 

 a scent, by which they are traced by their con- 

 geners to great distances, and through almost 

 interminable forests. Except for this provision 

 of nature, it is evident that many animals would 

 have great difficulty in tracing each other, and 

 thus the notus odor of each species serves instead 

 of language, or the usual calls. A curious instance 



