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nppctite ; the animal then becomes bold by necessity. He 

 even runs to meet danger, knowing [i.e., forecasting by 

 imagination] that it will" be redoubled by return of light." 

 And again, speaking of the wolf where rendered timid by 

 the hostility of man, he says that it " becomes subject to 

 illusions and to false judgments, which are the fruit of the 

 imagination ; and if these false judgments become extended 

 to a sufficient number of objects, he becomes the sport of an 

 illusory system, which may lead him into infinite mistakes 

 although perfectly consistent with the principles which have 

 taken root in his mind. He will see snares where there are 

 none; his imagination, distorted by fear, will invert the 

 order of his various sensations, and thus produce deceptive 

 shapes, to which he will attach an abstract notion of 

 danger," &c* 



! shall only give one other fact to prove the existence 

 of Imagination of the second order in animals, but I think 

 it is a good one, because showing that this faculty exists in 

 this degree in an animal not having a very high grade of 

 intelligence — I mean the wild rabbit. Every one who has 

 ferreted wild rabbits must have noticed that if the warren has 

 been ferreted before, the rabbits are very unwilling to " bolt," 

 allowing themselves to be seriously injured by the ferrets 

 rather than face the dangers awaiting them outside. This 

 shows that the rabbits associate (owing to past experience) 

 the presence of a ferret in their burrows with the presence 

 of a sportsman outside them (for it does not signify how 

 careful the sportsman may be to keep silent), and so vivid is 



* TnMUgenet of Animal*, pp. 21-, 120-1 (English translation). The. 

 ■well-known canning of the fox unci wolf in eluding the hounds is also evi- 

 dence of a vivid imagination. In addition to the eases of this given in 

 Animal Intelligence (pp. 126-80), I may now publish the following, which 

 hai recently been communicated to me by Dr. 0. M. Fenn, of Ban Diego: — 



'• Near the south coast of San l'Yanci-eo a farmer had been much annoyed by 

 the l"ss of his chickens. His hounds had succeeded in Capturing several of the 



marauding coyotes (a Kind of small wolf), but one of the number constantly 

 eluded the pursuers by making for the coast or beach, where all traoes of 



him would DC lost I >ii one occa-ion. then lore, the tanner divided US pack 



of bounds, and with two or three of the dogs took a position near the shore. 

 The wolf peon approached the ocean with the other detachment of bounds in 

 close pursuit, It waa observed thai aa the waves receded from the shore he 

 woula follow them aa oloselj aa possible, and in no instance made footprints 



in the -and that wen- not quickly obliterated by the swell. \V hen, finally, 



he bad gone b»r enough, us, he supposed, to destroy the scent, he turned 

 inland." 



