Do Wild Animals Obey The Ten Commandments Better Than Men and Women?
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN THE ANIMAL WORLD
Does the bear know by instinct that it is wrong for him to steal from his brother bear? Is the growl of a dog with a bone really a warning to other dogs to respect the command. “Thou shalt not covet”? Did you know that a pack of timber-wolves has been known to punish the wolf-sentinel who repeatedly gave “false witness” about approaching danger? Are the seven great ”thou shalt nots” and the three great “thou shalts” known and observed by squirrels as well as elephants — by bees as well as birds?
These are fascinating questions. Their answers give to the nature-lover a fresh, vital interest in the lives of all wild creatures. No one but a truly great observer of animal life could have answered them Yet that is what the famous naturalist-author, Ernest Thompson Seton, has done.
In an absorbing little book called The Ten Commandments in the Animal World he shows you, by actual examples from his notebooks, how every single one of the Mosaic laws are known and enforced in the animal world. Wouldn’t this be an absorbingly interesting thing to know?
The “Ten Commandments in the Animal World”, a cloth-bound book, will be presented as a gift from the publishers to every outdoor enthusiast who answers this advertisement and becomes a customer for the beautiful six-volume set of “The Library of Woodcraft and Pioneering”.
