324 LAUGHTER AND WEEPING. 



animals shed tears under certain mental influences ; it is 

 desirable, if not necessary, to give illustrations of the fact, 

 with the names of the authorities who have observed it. 



Mrs. Burton, speaking of thirsty horses in the Syrian 

 Desert, says, 'I have seen the tears roll down their cheeks 

 with thirst.' Of a mule crippled by a two-inch nail in its 

 foot, ' His face was the picture of pain and despair. Tears 

 streamed out of his eyes.' And, again, of a camel, ' Tears 

 streamed from the eyes.' Cows 'weep often when in sorrow,' 

 says another authoress Mrs. Mackellar. She mentions one 

 sold by its mistress, who had brought it up, that ' would 

 stand lowing pitifully all day long .... with the tears 

 streaming down her face.' A young soko, Livingstone tells 

 us, if not taken up in the arms like a child, when it desired 

 and appealed to be so carried, engaged in ' the most bitter 

 human-like weeping.' 



Chimpanzees, in Sierra Leone, that have been trained to 

 carry water-jugs for man, ' weep bitterly ' when they let 

 them fall and see them in pieces at their feet (' Wonders of 

 Nature and Art '). Dr. Boerlage shot a female (mother) 

 ape in Java, that fell mortally wounded from a tree, ' tightly 

 clasping a young one in her arms, and she died weeping ' 

 (Biichner). 



A giraffe, wounded by a rifle shot, was also found to 

 have ' tears trickling from the lashes of his dark, humid 

 eyes ' (Sir Wm. Harris). Some old rats, finding a young 

 one dead by drowning, 'wiped the tears from their eyes 

 with their fore-paws ' ('Animal World'). Gordon Gumming 

 describes large tears as trickling from the eyes of a dying 

 elephant. 



Steller, the companion of Behring's second voyage of 

 discovery, asserts that the mother sea-bear of Kamtschatka 

 ' sheds tears ; ' while the male parent, ' when he sees that his 

 young is irrevocably lost .... like the mother, begins to 

 cry so bitterly that the tears trickle down upon his breast ' 

 (Hartwig). Dr. Yvan mentions an orang that wept when a 

 mango was taken from him, just as a child would have 

 done. 



In certain cases there is sobbing without tears, or the 



