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INDEX 



Dangerous birds* 192. 



Death, mystery to bear, 133. 



Deer, author's fight with, 307; com- 

 bats of male, 280; insanity, 18, 289; 

 temperament, 17, 18. 



Deer, aids, 153; temperament, 18. 



Deer, barasingha, temperament, 18. 



Deer, fallow, homing instinct, 176; 

 temperament, 18. 



Deer, mule, or Rocky Mountain 

 black-tail, escapes from puma, 278; 

 female, murdered by mate, 289; 

 Max Siebsr's story, 155; tempera- 

 ment, 18. 



Deer, sambar, Indian, killed by tiger, 

 279; temperament, 18. 



Deer, sambar, Malay, droll trait in, 

 153; temperament, 18. 



Deer, Virginia, 156. 



Deer, white-tailed, 58, 156; compara- 

 tive intelligence, 41 ; temperament, 

 18. 



Defense, of nest, by Canada goose, 

 251 ; by laughing gull, 251 ; of fami- 

 ly, by animals, 249; methods of, 

 against dangerous animals, 306. 



Defilement of food by wolverine, 223. 



Desert Botanical Laboratory, 163. 



"Dinah," gorilla, 93, 94. 



Dipodomys deserti, 165. 



Display of plumage by birds, 190. 



Ditmars, Raymond L., 46, 201. 



Dog, comparative intelligence, 41 , 42 ; 

 criminality, 223; sheep-killing, 223. 



"Dohong," orang-utan, 73, 75; dis- 

 covery and use of lever, 77-80. 



Door manipulated by bear, 133; by 

 elephant, 106. 



"Dowager, The," in battle with 

 "May Queen," 282. 



DuChaillu, Paul, 100. 



Duck, eider, 183. 



Eagle, attacks antelope, 252; attacks 

 on young mountain sheep, 233; 

 wedge-tailed, 188. 



Eaton, Howard, 252. 



Education, definition, 9; of animals, 

 in Zoological Park, 206. 



Edwards, J. S., 86. 



Elephant, Milan on, 118; African, 

 102; antipathies of "Gunda," 107; 

 attack, methods of, 308; attack on 

 keeper Thuman by "Gunda," 310; 

 attacks railway train in India, 258; 

 catching operations, 109, 114; com- 

 parative intelligence, 41, 42; com- 

 pared with horse, 116; comprehen- 

 sion under training, 112; courage, 

 258; curvature in brain of "Alice," 

 119; door manipulated by "Con- 

 go," 106; fighting between ele- 

 phants, 283; fighting methods of, 

 309; fighting to order, 118; in- 

 genuity of "Kartoum" in manipu- 

 lating doors and locks, 107; keddah 

 operations, 109, 114; memory, 109; 

 123; mind, ioi, 103, 115; moral 

 qualities, 116; "must," 117; ob- 

 servations, independent, 104; per- 

 formances, no; philosophy, 113; 

 promptness in execution of orders, 

 115; punishments for, 259; reason- 

 ing, 104; rogue, 223; sign language, 

 105; temperament, 23; training, 

 207; tricks of "Alice," 108; tricks 

 of "Gunda," 108; vengefulness, 

 117, 123; voice, 35; working, ac- 

 complishments, in; Yerkes on, 

 119. 



Elephas indicus, 103. 



Elephas pumilio, 106. 



Elk, American, 38; attack methods, 

 305; courage, 247; fights William 

 Woodruff, 248; men killed by, 302; 

 recognizes protection, 154; temper- 

 ament, 18. 



Elk River Mountains, mountain goat 

 in, 151. 



"Equine Paradox," 214. 



"Esau," chimpanzee, 82. 



Bulabes, 187. 



European brown bear, attacks keeper, 

 141; comparative intelligence, 41; 

 feared by Kadiak bear, 270; tem- 

 perament, 17, 128. 



