Marcu 31, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 

Moral Obligations Among Animals. 
From the Florida Times-Union, 
Two FLoripiAns saw a buck defend a doe and 
fawn from the attack of a panther and so testi- 
fied. The story found its way into scientific 
circles and was promptly labeled impossible be- 
cause the sexes separate before the fawns come. 
Now what is that season? In Florida we see 
fawns every month in the year; shall we con- 
clude that the bucks never see the does? Also, 
it is denied that animals have moral sense which 
would bring one to the aid of another! Yet one 
hog will hasten to help another on hearing cries 
of distress; if that is denied, let the skeptic catch 
a Florida rooter. Also, it is admitted that 
elephants will help another out of a pit and even 
throw logs on which he can climb out—at least 
we have high authority for such kindness. Why, 
_ then, should not a buck help a doe that calls for 
help? The most foolish conclusion science can 
reach is that it knows it all. 
Now from Miami comes the statement that a 
wounded wild duck could not fly north with its 
companions, whereupon its mate remained with 
it. Shall we deny that such love was felt as is 
possible to us? Pairs of wild ducks are fre- 
quently seen after the migration of the flocks; 
may not others of these have remained for like 
reasons? If so, why deny to the bird the senti- 
ment the same fact is allowed to prove in the 
man? We all acknowledge that maternal love 
can overcome the most timid disposition, so that 
a rabbit will fight a snake, a dove fly in the face 
of a man, and the eagle or wolf fight to the death 
instead of escaping; what do these facts mean? 
Another incident comes from South Florida. 
A heron was born deformed—a defect in one 
wing makes flight impossible, and a broken leg 
forbids the possibility of making a living in the 
ustial way—whereupon another heron feeds it 
day by day and has done so for weeks. What 
does this prove? That the moral sense which 
builds our hospitals is felt by birds? Science re- 
fuses to accept this, but those who have watched 
the animals will accept the inference. 
A fireman risks his life to save a child, and 
science would have us believe he is only discharg- 
ing a duty; we prefer to know that he is doing 
something much better and higher. Is it only 
professionals, paid for the service, who so prove 
their manhood? Science must show this before 
making out its case. A pointer knew there was 
a rattlesnake in the grass and tried to keep his 
master away. When the fool man insisted on 
disregarding the warning, the dog plunged ahead 
and was bitten; did he not feel as the fireman 
did? Any man who loves real animals—not the 
toys—knows that they love and feel, but the 
scientist is content to lay down the law and use 
big words. It has always been so with science 
till it was forced to accept truth, and it ignores 
its own rules to sit still. We have no quarrel 
with science; we but insist that science bids us 
expect these qualities in animals, by telling us 
man is but a developed animal. If science de- 
nies inspiration and miracle, how can science ac- 
count for what man has, by looking for the germ 
of all we are in the animal? 
Sometimes a man becomes so scientific that he 
grows foolish and so wise that he will not believe 
his own eyes. If there be a real scientist among 
us let him go to Miami and watch the herons, 
of whom the News tells us. And then he may 
begin to learn something worth while. ~ 
WE extend to our contemporary our compli- 
ments upon their new dress. The size of the 
paper has been changed, the paper improved in 
quality, the illustrations more numerous, and the 
reading matter fully up to the high standard that 
the editors have been giving to their readers for 
years past. FFoREST AND STREAM is one of the 
oldest so-called sporting papers—we are not at 
all sure that it is not the oldest—and each year 
of its long existence it has made a very marked 
progress in at least one of its many departments. 
The new form of the paper will, we are sure, 
prove very acceptable to the journal’s host of ad- 
mirers and again we congratulate the management 
upon the change.—Field and Fancy. 




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