Instinct of Animals.-

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 28, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 22.

Instinct of Animals.—

It has been said that animals have reason where frequently it is only instinct. For instance, we have been frequently told that a carrier pigeon, however he may have been carried from home, even to the distance of 500 miles, when liberated goes straight up into the air, makes a circle, and then goes straight home. This is true, doubtless, in some cases, but not always, by any means. It has been found that when released in cloudy weather, they have been many hours longer in getting home. Frequently they never reach home. Horses and cows often eat poisonous food in the way of herbs, are made ill, and frequently die. Bees, wonderful builders that they are, do their work very mechanically. Yet how often is the instinct of animals truer than man's reason. If man had not sinned, every sense would have been superior to that of the brute creation.