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Images of Animals : Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind: Animals, Culture, and Society Crist, Eileen. Temple University Press ISBN-10 1566396565 ISBN-13 9780585364063 Images of Animals In the series ANIMALS, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY, edited by Clinton R. Sanders and Arnold Arluke Images of Animals Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind Eileen Crist Temple University Press, Philadelphia 19122 Copyright © 1999 by Eileen Crist. All rights reserved Published 1999 Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Crist, Eileen, 1961— Images of animals : anthropomorphism and animal mind / Eileen Crist. p. cm. (Animals, culture, and society) Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. 1. Animal behavior. 2. Animal intelligence. 3. Anthropomorphism. I. Title. II. Series. QL751.C8824 1998 CIP For my family, Despina Lala-Crist, Robert Crist, and Ray Crist with gratitude and love I have seen Swallows play a wonderfully graceful game of catching a feather. It was one August afternoon when I was sitting at the top of a steeply sloping farm field in the uplands of Devon, that I noticed more Swallows than usual were wheeling close together over one part of the field, presumably an abundance of flies on the hot, sunny day being the cause. Ducks and Geese roamed in this field and the grass was sprinkled with a few white breast feathers. I then saw a Swallow dip to the ground and sweep upwards with one of these feathers held in his beak and, circling above the other Swallows, he let it fall. As it floated down it was caught by one of the wheeling birds who then rose above the rest and again the feather was let loose, to float down through the many circling Swallows. This time it nearly reached the earth, then one bird swept down with graceful dip and flicker of wings, rising aloft with the feather, to drop it once more. Sometimes their wayward toy would fall uncaught, perhaps too worn for further use; then quickly a bird swooped to the grass, seized another feather while on the wing and the play continued as before. It was a beautiful game to watch in the setting of hills, with a background of wild moorland and far away the blue haze of distant sea meeting the deeper blue sky.
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