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physique. An ordinary observer would fail 

 to distinguish any specific difference be- 

 tween the wild cattle in Chillingham Park 

 and the domestic shorthorn, with which they 

 are fertile ; but although these cattle have 

 for hundreds of years been kept in this 

 park, and habituated to man, they are 

 no nearer domestication than they were 

 a hundred years ago. " One remarkable 

 feature must not go unnoticed," says Lord 

 Tankerville in reporting the results of breed- 

 ing the Chillingham cattle with domestic 

 shorthorns, " and that is, however possible 

 it may be to alter the general appearance 

 and weight of the animal, little or no in- 

 fluence has yet been produced in its tempera- 

 ment that is, by crossing with shorthorns." 



This experience indicates that character- 

 istics of temperament are more persistent 

 than those of physique. 



The domestic reindeer of Lapland differs 

 from the wild, and although there are 

 wild reindeer in North America, none are 

 domestic. 



Writing on the domestication of wild 

 animals, Mr David Wilson, judge in Moul- 

 mein, says : " There are wild cattle in Bur- 

 mah saing so called whose skulls I have 

 compared with skulls of the domestic breed. 



