A Classification of Animals from the point of view 
of Economic Zoology. 
Group A. — 
Group B. — 
Group C. — 
Animals captured or slaughtered by man for food, or for 
the use by him in other ways, of their skin, bone, tat or 
other products. „ , _ . , , 
Examples . — Animals of the chase ; food-fishes ; whales ; 
pearl-mussels. 
Animals bred or cultivated by man for food or for the use. of 
their products in industry or for their services as living 
things. _ 
Examples . — Flocks and herds ; horses ; dogs ; poultry ; 
gold-fish ; bees ; silkworms and leeches. 
■Animals which directly promote man’s operations as a civilised 
being without being killed, captured or trained by him. 
Examples. — Scavengers, such as vultures ; carrion-feeding 
insects : earthworms and flower-fertilizing insects. 
Group D. — Animals which concern man as causing bodily injury, some- 
times death, to him, and in other cases disease, often of a 
deadly character. 
Examples. — Lions; wolves; snakes; stinging and parasitic 
insects ; disease germ-carriers, as flies and mosquitoes ; 
parasitic worms ; parasitic protozoa. 
Group E.— Animals which concern man as causing bodily injury or 
disease (both possibly of a deadly character) to (A), his stock 
of domesticated animals ; or ( B ), to his vegetable plantations ; 
or ((7), to wild animals in the preservation of which he is 
interested ; or (D), wild plants in the preservation of which 
he is interested. 
Examples . — Similar to those of Group D, but also insects 
and worms which destroy crops, fruit and forest trees, and 
pests such as frugivorous birds, rabbits and voles. 
Group F. — Animals which concern man as being destructive to his 
worked up products of art and industry, such as. (A) his 
various works, buildings, larger constructions and habitations ; 
{E) furniture, books, drapery and clothing ; (C) his food and 
his stores. 
Examples . — White ants ; wood-eating larva? ; clothes 
moths, weevils, acari and marine borers. 
Group G. — Animals which are known as “ beneficials ” on account of 
their being destructive to or checking the increase of the 
injurious animals classed under Groups D, E and F. 
Examples . — Certain carnivorous and insectivorous birds, 
reptiles and amphibia ; parasitic and predaceous insects, 
acari, myriapoda, etc. 
