232 THE MINDS AND MANNERS 



These Bolshevistic individuals commit misdemeanors and 

 crimes such as are unknown in the wild state. One male 

 ruminant out of perhaps fifty will turn murderer, and kill a 

 female or a fawn, entirely contrary to the herd law; and at long 

 intervals a male predatory animal kills his mate or young. 



Occasionally captivity warps wild animal or wild bird 

 character quite out of shape, though it is a satisfaction to know 

 that the total proportion of those so affected is very small. 

 Long and close confinement in a prison-like home, filled with 

 more daily cares and worries than any animal cage has of iron 

 bars, has sent many a human wife and mother to an insane 

 asylum; but the super-humanitarians who rail out at the 

 existence of zoological parks and zoos are troubled by that 

 not at all. 



