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1 68 ANIMAL ANTIPATHIES 



been associated in many countries for centuries in the 

 common service of man, and early training makes the 

 horse acquiesce in the proximity of the creature which 

 disgusts him. Otherwise it is far more difficult to 

 accustom horses to work with camels than with 

 elephants, precisely because the repugnance is a natural 

 antipathy, and not a reasoned fear. They get used to 

 the sight of an elephant, but the smell of a camel 

 disgusts and frightens them. English horses which 

 have never seen a camel refuse to approach ground 

 where they have stood. Recently a travelling menagerie 

 was refused leave to encamp on a village green in 

 Suffolk, not because it was not welcome, for a wild- 

 beast show is always vastly popular, but because the 

 green was also the site of a market, and the farmers' 

 gig-horses invariably refused to be driven across it after 

 camels had stood there. Two bears were being exhibited 

 in Harley Street recently, and no horse showed any fear 

 of them. One horse almost touched the larger bear, 

 but neither it nor the team of a four-in-hand which 

 passed showed any nervousness. 



Near relationship is no guarantee that instinctive 

 antipathy shall not exist between two species. Hounds 

 always hunt a fox, or in Brittany the wolf, with their 

 hair standing up, though the same species of hound 

 hunts deer or hares indifferently with the coat smooth. 

 The innate dislike of bees for some persons is probably 



