item: #1 of 21
          id: 10962
      author: Aitken, Edward Hamilton
       title: Concerning Animals and Other Matters
        date: None
       words: 51063
      flesch: 72
     summary: First of all, some jungle men were called in, for the man of the jungle must naturally know more about snakes than other men. This does not indicate pinching poverty; there must be some margin between such men and starvation.
    keywords: animals; beasts; betel; birds; black; body; bombay; brahmin; case; charmer; cobra; coconut; country; day; doubt; ears; eyes; face; fact; feet; foot; garden; good; ground; hand; head; hindu; house; illustration; india; life; look; man; men; mind; mouth; nature; new; night; nose; nut; owl; pair; place; point; purpose; rat; sea; sense; snake; species; spread; tail; thing; time; tree; use; water; way; wild; word; work
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        item: #2 of 21
          id: 17185
      author: Bingley, Thomas
       title: Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits
        date: None
       words: 34573
      flesch: 68
     summary: It is, however, principally for its fur that it is hunted; the skin, even, is of little value, being coarser and looser in texture, and of course less applicable to general uses, than that of many other animals. But, Uncle Thomas, what can be the use of such animals as white ants?
    keywords: animal; appearance; body; cat; day; dog; dogs; elephant; feet; good; ground; horse; instinct; kees; length; lion; little; man; manner; master; nest; place; stories; story; thomas; time; tree; uncle; uncle thomas; water; way
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        item: #3 of 21
          id: 18193
      author: Long, William J. (William Joseph)
       title: Ways of Wood Folk
        date: None
       words: 48343
      flesch: 82
     summary: But he thieves by night when other birds are abed, and as they practise their own thieving by open daylight, it may be that they are denouncing him as an impostor. Other birds never see them, but Chickadee and his relations leave never a twig unexplored.
    keywords: bank; beaver; big; birds; canoe; crow; dam; day; eyes; feet; flock; fox; good; grass; head; lake; long; look; moment; mooween; nest; new; night; open; owl; place; sound; time; tree; watching; water; way; wild; winter; woods; young
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        item: #4 of 21
          id: 18767
      author: Woodworth, Francis C. (Francis Channing)
       title: Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match
        date: None
       words: 53413
      flesch: 74
     summary: Sheep, as well as many other animals, show a great fondness for music. The most docile zebra on record was one that was burned, accidentally, in England, several years ago, with several other animals belonging to a lyceum.
    keywords: animal; bear; body; boy; cat; child; day; dog; door; elephant; father; feet; fellow; following; friend; gentleman; good; ground; head; home; horse; illustration; left; lion; man; manner; master; men; moment; place; poor; room; saw; sheep; story; tiger; time; water; way; years
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        item: #5 of 21
          id: 1901
      author: Long, William J. (William Joseph)
       title: Secrets of the Woods
        date: None
       words: 43320
      flesch: 80
     summary: When the autumn woods are busy places, and wings flutter and little feet go pattering everywhere after winter supplies, he also begins garnering, remembering the hungry days of last winter. A rustle of little feet on leaves, a faint kwit-kwit with a question in it, and he is gone.
    keywords: away; bank; big; buck; day; days; deer; eyes; feet; find; fish; good; ground; grouse; head; hiding; keeonekh; leaves; log; long; meeko; moment; otter; place; snow; squirrel; time; trail; tree; watching; water; wild; wilderness; winter; woods
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        item: #6 of 21
          id: 19850
      author: Dixon, Royal
       title: The Human Side of Animals
        date: None
       words: 59102
      flesch: 69
     summary: The mole is an engineer and miner who seems to have a strange sense of direction practically unknown to many other animals. This is not surprising when we remember that there are many other animals that live in caves and grottoes, and like the otter, seek ready-made homes for their convenience.
    keywords: american; animals; armour; away; bear; beaver; body; cat; day; dog; dogs; earth; enemies; enemy; example; fact; family; feet; food; form; fox; future; ground; head; home; human; illustration; language; life; live; long; man; means; men; monkeys; mother; music; nature; near; new; night; number; place; play; protection; sense; sheep; time; tree; use; water; way; white; wild; work; world; young
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        item: #7 of 21
          id: 27887
      author: Seton, Ernest Thompson
       title: Wild Animals at Home
        date: None
       words: 45500
      flesch: 82
     summary: She had little ones to care for. And here the Otters will meet, old and young, male and female, without any thought but the joy of fun together, and shoot down one after the other, swiftly, and swifter still, as the hill grows smooth with use, and plump into the water and out again; and chase each other with little animal gasps of glee, each striving to make the shoot more often and more quickly than the others.
    keywords: animal; badger; bear; camera; coyote; creature; day; deer; den; dog; elk; feet; food; fox; good; great; ground; half; home; house; illustration; josh; life; man; mother; mountain; near; night; park; prairie; rabbit; seton; skunk; snow; squirrel; tail; time; way; wild; winter; woods; yards; yellowstone; young; | |
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        item: #8 of 21
          id: 29349
      author: Rees, Alfred Wellesley
       title: Creatures of the Night: A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain
        date: None
       words: 83121
      flesch: 65
     summary: Now a kingfisher, then a dipper, sped like an arrow past the near corner of the pool; and the whiz of swift wings--unheard by all except little creatures living in frequent danger, and listening with beating hearts to sounds unperceived by our drowsy senses dulled by long immunity from fear--caused momentary terror to the water-vole. On the outskirts of the wood, in a rough, ivy-grown ridge where, years ago, some trees had been felled, a flourishing colony of bank-voles--little creatures nearly akin, and almost similar in shape and size, to the field-voles--dwelt among the roots and the undergrowth.
    keywords: badger; bank; beneath; brighteye; brock; burrow; chamber; close; creature; cubs; day; dog; earth; family; fear; field; food; fox; grass; hare; hedge; home; hounds; lay; leaves; life; little; lutra; mother; near; nest; night; otter; path; place; pool; rabbit; river; scent; set; spot; stream; summer; time; trout; village; vixen; vole; water; way; wild; winter; wood
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        item: #9 of 21
          id: 29816
      author: Houssay, Frédéric
       title: The Industries of Animals
        date: None
       words: 73152
      flesch: 71
     summary: _Genera less skilful in the art of paralysing victims._--These researches show us that in the _Cerceris_ instinct is still subject to defect. The illustrations, when not otherwise stated, are in most cases adapted from Brehm's _Thierleben_.
    keywords: air; animals; ants; bees; birds; burrow; care; case; danger; day; dwellings; earth; eggs; end; entrance; facts; female; fig; fish; food; form; great; head; hole; honey; hunting; illustration; individual; industries; industry; insects; instinct; intelligence; introduction; labour; larvæ; leaves; life; lives; man; manner; materials; method; nature; nest; new; number; order; place; prey; provisions; remains; second; shelter; size; skilful; species; sphex; surface; time; victim; walls; water; way; william; work; young
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        item: #10 of 21
          id: 30249
      author: Burroughs, John
       title: Ways of Nature
        date: None
       words: 72266
      flesch: 75
     summary: Probably in a state of wild nature birds never make mistakes, but where they come in contact with our civilization and are confronted by new conditions, they very naturally make mistakes. The woodpeckers, the jays, the cuckoos, the pewees, the warblers, and other wood birds show only a low degree of variability in song, feeding, and nesting habits.
    keywords: act; air; animals; birds; case; course; creatures; crow; day; dog; doubt; eggs; experience; fact; fear; feet; food; fox; ground; history; human; instinct; intelligence; kind; knowledge; life; man; matter; mind; mother; nature; nest; new; place; power; reason; result; robin; sense; song; species; spring; story; things; think; thought; time; tree; use; water; way; wild; woods; young
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        item: #11 of 21
          id: 31787
      author: Bloomfield, Robert
       title: The Bird and Insects' Post Office
        date: None
       words: 7048
      flesch: 80
     summary: My mother says that in old times, when swallows came to England, there were no such things to be seen. As to the swallows and many other birds going to a vast distance, there is no wonder in that, if you look at their wings; but how would you, for instance, perform such a journey--you who, even when you sing, put yourself into a violent passion, as if you had not a minute to live?
    keywords: bird; bloomfield; children; friend; illustration; letter; little; pigeon; thought; time
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        item: #12 of 21
          id: 33434
      author: Waring, George
       title: The Squirrels and other animals Or, Illustrations of the habits and instincts of many of the smaller British quadrupeds
        date: None
       words: 28125
      flesch: 78
     summary: But I think, that, if the gamekeeper had seen him injuring the young trees,[1] he would not have been very well pleased, and perhaps he would have put his gun to his shoulder and shot poor little Brush, if he had not received orders to the contrary. Holding the nut in his hands, his sharp teeth soon gnawed through the shell, and when he had reached the kernel, the dainty little fellow would not eat a bit till he had carefully removed every particle of the dry brown skin from it.
    keywords: animals; brush; children; close; day; days; fellow; food; ground; hole; leatherwing; life; nest; oak; squirrels; think; time; tree; water; wild; winter
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        item: #13 of 21
          id: 33687
      author: Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)
       title: Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom
        date: None
       words: 94158
      flesch: 70
     summary: It is of an extremely predacious nature, and feeds on the various species of small worms, and other water animals, that happen to approach. The ape possesses a peculiar property, wherein he differs greatly from other animals, and resembles man--namely, that he is by nature equally gluttonous and inquisitive.
    keywords: account; animal; bear; bird; black; body; cat; close; common; country; creature; day; days; distance; dog; dogs; door; elephant; end; england; escape; eyes; family; favorite; feet; fish; following; food; gentleman; ground; half; hand; head; home; horse; lay; left; legs; length; life; lion; man; manner; master; moment; morning; mouth; nest; night; number; order; place; poor; prey; saw; sea; set; size; species; spot; tiger; time; tree; water; way; work; years; young
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        item: #14 of 21
          id: 37151
      author: Jones, Charles Albert
       title: Habits, Haunts and Anecdotes of the Moose and Illustrations from Life
        date: None
       words: 10666
      flesch: 82
     summary: At least one in three of the Maine guides can call moose. Of the two, still hunting is usually the more successful and the greater number of moose are secured in that way.
    keywords: animal; bull; bull moose; camp; cow; guide; hunter; illustration; lake; life; moose; shot; time; water
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        item: #15 of 21
          id: 40459
      author: Romanes, George John
       title: Animal Intelligence The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV.
        date: None
       words: 214670
      flesch: 62
     summary: Dr. Hancock, in the 'Zoological Journal,' gives an account of a species of _Doras_, the individuals of which are about a foot in length, and travel by night in large shoals, or 'droves,' when thus searching for water. The robbers then went off to a _rufibarbis_ nest which was in the neighbourhood, and killed half the inhabitants while plundering the nest.
    keywords: account; action; air; animal; ants; bees; birds; body; building; case; cat; cells; circumstances; close; companions; course; darwin; day; days; dead; direction; display; distance; dog; dogs; door; doubt; earth; eggs; elephant; end; evidence; fact; feet; finding; fish; fly; following; food; form; friend; general; glass; good; habits; half; hand; head; hive; home; honey; house; insects; instance; instinct; intelligence; john; kind; larvæ; length; life; line; making; manner; memory; mind; monkey; nature; near; nest; new; number; object; observation; open; operation; order; place; point; present; process; purpose; reason; result; return; room; round; saw; sense; sight; sir; small; species; spider; surface; sympathy; time; tree; vol; wasp; water; way; web; window; work; workers; years; young
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        item: #16 of 21
          id: 42871
      author: Sharp, Dallas Lore
       title: Wild Life Near Home
        date: None
       words: 54255
      flesch: 83
     summary: But everybody, except the mice and little birds, are enemies, his only friends being his wits and legs. Can any cabin in the Adirondacks open its window to more voices--any square mile of solid, unhacked forest on the globe show richer, gayer variety of bird life?
    keywords: air; bed; birds; cold; come; dark; day; eyes; feet; fields; grass; ground; half; head; herring; high; hole; home; house; illustration; leaves; left; life; look; nest; new; night; pines; place; pond; possum; rabbit; road; run; skunk; sleep; snow; spring; summer; things; time; toad; tree; uncle; water; way; white; wild; wings; winter; woods; young
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        item: #17 of 21
          id: 44422
      author: Timbs, John
       title: Eccentricities of the Animal Creation.
        date: None
       words: 89570
      flesch: 66
     summary: Antoninus exhibited Hippopotami, with lions and other animals; Commodus no less than five, some of which he slew with his own hand. Whatever this electric state of the air preceding a shower may be, it seems to be the same that causes in other animals some peculiar sensations, which makes the peacock squall, the pintado call come back, &c. An expressive adage says:-- When that the ass begins to bray, Be sure we shall have rain that day.
    keywords: account; air; animal; ant; bat; bear; birds; black; body; chameleon; colour; country; crab; creature; day; deep; described; distance; eggs; england; feathers; feet; female; fine; fish; fishes; fly; food; form; gardens; green; habits; half; head; hedgehog; hippopotamus; history; horn; insects; kind; leaves; length; life; lion; living; man; means; mermaid; mole; mouth; nature; nest; new; night; owl; parts; place; prey; rain; rhinoceros; river; round; saw; sea; sir; size; skin; society; species; specimen; surface; tail; time; tongue; tree; unicorn; water; weather; white; wings; years; young; zoological
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        item: #18 of 21
          id: 44849
      author: Tylor, Alfred
       title: Colouration in Animals and Plants
        date: None
       words: 38507
      flesch: 70
     summary: _Olivacca_ General Colouration_, or such as appears to have no very special function _as_ colour.
    keywords: animals; birds; black; body; brown; butterflies; case; cells; colour; colouration; colouring; dark; decoration; female; fig; form; green; illustration; insects; light; lines; matter; nature; organs; parts; pattern; plants; plate; red; sense; species; spots; structure; white; wings; yellow; | |
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        item: #19 of 21
          id: 6052
      author: Hornaday, William T. (William Temple)
       title: The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations
        date: None
       words: 105572
      flesch: 74
     summary: I call it astounding, because in comparison with what could _not_ be done with other wild animals caught when adult, no other word is adequate to express the difference. (See page 149)] THE MINDS AND MANNERS OF WILD ANIMALS
    keywords: adult; air; animal species; animals; attack; away; bear; birds; black; bull; cage; captivity; chimpanzee; common; courage; day; days; death; deer; den; dog; door; earth; elephant; elk; end; fear; feet; fight; fighting; food; foot; good; gorilla; grizzly; ground; half; hand; head; herd; home; house; human; intelligence; keeper; kill; language; left; life; like; lion; little; male; man; means; men; mind; monkeys; mother; mountain; murder; nest; new; number; open; orang; order; park; performance; place; reason; savage; save; saw; set; sheep; species; stage; thing; thought; time; training; water; white; wild; work; world; years; young; zoological
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        item: #20 of 21
          id: 7446
      author: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
       title: The Naturalist in La Plata
        date: None
       words: 103330
      flesch: 56
     summary: I frequently watched them at dusk, beating about the trees and bushes in a systematic manner, often a dozen or more of them wheeling together about one tree, like so many moths about a candle, and one occasionally dashing through the branches until a pigeon--usually the Zenaida maculata--or other bird was scared from its perch. But as soon as the young cow-birds are able to shift for themselves, and begin to associate with their own kind, their habits change, and they become suspicious and wild like other birds.
    keywords: america; animal; birds; black; body; burrows; case; chapter; close; colour; common; country; creature; day; death; distance; dog; dogs; earth; enemies; fact; family; fear; feet; fly; food; form; grass; ground; habits; half; head; horse; humming; insects; instinct; kind; life; like; male; man; manner; nature; nest; new; notes; open; pampas; place; plain; prey; puma; sight; size; south; species; spiders; spot; surface; tail; time; tree; vizcacha; water; way; white; wild; wind; wings; young
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        item: #21 of 21
          id: 8729
      author: Yerkes, Robert Mearns
       title: The Dancing Mouse: A Study in Animal Behavior
        date: None
       words: 85733
      flesch: 62
     summary: Similarly other dancers were trained by means of series of ten tests, twenty tests, or one hundred tests per day. Possibly two groups of five male dancers each, chosen at random, would yield very different results in discrimination tests.
    keywords: animal; behavior; black; blue; box; boxes; brightness; case; color; conditions; dancer; dancing; day; discrimination; discrimination box; discrimination tests; electric; experiments; figure; green; habit; individuals; labyrinth; left; method; mice; mouse; number; red; results; right; series; table; tests; time; training; vision; white; wrong
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