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, f 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, f 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 6 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. 



Tn certain cases there is sobbing without tears, or the 



