Die Spiele der Tiere / von Karl Groos.

  • Groos, Karl, 1861-1946.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Die Spiele der Tiere / von Karl Groos. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    u 2lu£gang£puuft unb ber cinjige ^tnecF bes Spiels beim Kinb.’) Unb 10. I7. J^ubfoit fagt in feinem umnberooDen 23ud]e „The naturalist in La Plata“ -): My experience is that mammals and birds, with few exceptions — probably there are really no exceptions — possess the habit of indulging frequently in more or less regulär or set performances, with or without sound, or composed of sound exclusively; and that these performances, which in many animals are only discordant cries and choruses, and uncouth, irregulär motions, in the more aerial, graceful and melodious kinds take immeasurably higher, more complex and more beautiful forms“. 3) „We see that the inferior animals, when the conditions of life are favourable, are subject to periodical fits of gladness, affecting them powerfully and Standing out in vivid contrast to their ordinary temper. And we know what this feeling is — this periodic intense elation which even civilized man occasionally experiences when in perfect health, more especially when young. There are moments when he is mad whit h j oy, when he cannot keep still, when his impulse is to sing and shout aloud and laugh at nothing, to run and exert himself in some extravagant way. Among the heavier mammalians the feeling is manifested in loud noises, bellowings and screamings, and in lumbering, uncouth motions — throwing up of heels, pretended panics, and ponderous mock battles. In smaller and livelier animals, with greater celerity and certitude in their motions, the feeling shows itself in more regulär and often in more complex ways. Thus, Felidae when young, and, in very agile, sprightly species like the Puma, throughout life, simulate all the actions of an animal hunting its prey . . . Birds are more subject to this universal joyous instinct than mammals, and there are times J) uT|. Siegler, „Das (Sefiibl, 1895, 5. 236. 2) 1. 21 uff. £oubotl, Chapman and Hall, 1892, 3. 21ujL 1895 (ttacfy btefer jitiere ich). Dal. bte glär.jenbe Kritif, bic IDallace über bas IPerf in ber geitfcfyrift „Hahtrc, 14. 21pril 1892, getrieben t}at. 3) €bb. 26^.