ABOUT ANIMALS AND BIRDS.
Animals follow their noses with unerring instinct. A dog identifies his master by smelling him. A goat picks her kid from an inclosure of hundreds with her nose. After her separation a cow is never satisfied with her calf until she has thoroughly smelled it. The feathered family are so deficient as to smell and taste that they go anywhere and eat anything. Birds are seen contentedly brooding, about slaughter-houses and sewer discharges where the air is so contaminated that a horse would turn up its nose, draw its lips back from its teeth and groan. The birds eat unspeakable things. It is nothing to find them raking the river banks for worms at the very mouth of a sewer discharge. Some of our golden-noted gaily plumaged birds, that have been sung by poets and painted by artists, may be found in the fields complacently flicking the undigested corn from the droppings of the herds they follow. Beyond all questions, "the birds have sight and the animals scent, : ' and while each is defective in one of these senses it seems compensated for by the greater degree in which it possesses the other.
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Lake County Press, Issue 1067, 4 June 1903, Page 7
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196ABOUT ANIMALS AND BIRDS. Lake County Press, Issue 1067, 4 June 1903, Page 7
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