Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals

Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals is a Book related to Animals. The book tells that Formed like man, and practicing similar gestures, but with thumbs instead of great toes upon their feet, and with so narrow a heel-bone, that even those who constantly walk upright have not the firm and dignified step of human beings; the Quadrumana yet approximate so closely to us, that they demand the first place in a book devoted principally to the intellectual (whether it be reason or instinct) history of animals. This approximation is a matter of amusement to some; but to the larger portion of mankind, I should say, it is a source of disgust".Rapoynda", I exclaimed, one day, to a troublesome, inquisitive, restless negro, pointing to a black monkey, which much resembled him in character",that is your brother". Never shall I forget the malignant scowl which passed over the man's features at my heedless comparison.