CAPTIVE ANIMALS
“ I do not intend to suggest that the animal is capable of making a considei*ed comparison of one state of life with another, but I do think that when it has known fear and perhaps hunger, either by experience of its own or toy association with its wild kindred, and afterwards finds itself in conditions where it learns that no danger ever threatens and where food is abundant and shelter assured, it is capable of realising and appreciating the difference. What a pity it is that we cannot settle all doubts, definitely and finally, by asking the animats themselves whether' they so greatly love liberty or find captivity congenial and prefer it, for, after all, it is not our opinion of what the answer to the question should be,, but theirs, that matters.” —Mr T. H. Gillespie, j.n “Is it Cruel? ”
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Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3506, 16 August 1934, Page 7
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