Sense of Pain in the Lower Animals. — Sportsmen may argue for ever that the cold blood of fish, or the less intricate nervous organisation of the lower animals "generally, prevents the fish, and the birds, and the beasts from being so keenly sensitive as men are ; but, for our own parts, wo cannot see how the aphorism that the lowest insect feels a pang as great as when a giant dies can ever be disproved. — Spectator. Parrot Laying After Twenty-Foub Yeaes' Captivity.— A parrot has just laid an e gg. to all appearances perfectly, good, shell and all. Is this a common occurrence ? — "Slipe." [Old parrots not unfrequently lay after having been in captivity for many years. — Ed.].— Queen.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1974, 19 September 1889, Page 35
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119Page 35 Advertisements Column 1 Otago Witness, Issue 1974, 19 September 1889, Page 35
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