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enemies to them. Like all other animals, wild cat- 

 tle are adapted to the world they live in. They 

 have the kind of body that they need to enable 

 them to exist, and they are provided with instincts 

 pushing them this way and that and causing them 

 to do the things they need to do in order to sur- 

 vive. They have large bodies and big powerful 

 muscles. They have on their heads weapons of 



THE MOTHER INSTINCT 



defense in the form of horns. And wild cattle 

 wouldn't last long in a world of wolves and bears 

 without these weapons of defense. 



One of the most important instincts in these 

 wild races is the instinct to protect their young. 

 A young calf when it first comes into the world 

 is almost as helpless as a human baby in a cradle. 

 And if there were not some one to take an interest 

 in it and defend it, in a world where a hundred 

 hungry mouths are ready to eat it up, the species 

 would not last long. And those species have sur* 



