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This Strange Nature Story Gives a New Explanation of the Behaviour of Hunted Animals

that

The Rabbit Hunted a Stoat

By STUART

GELDER

O

N Saturday, August

28, this year, Ed- ward Kinnear.

a

shepherd living in the West- morland hamlet of Hartsop.. Patterdale, described

Hongkong Telegraph. Following remakable

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1937.

CHINA'S HEROES

the ex-

perience to a group of countrymen and myself.

"At three o'clock this after- noon, I was in Wath pasture, The most dismal sceptic will near Haysdale Beck, Hartsop. admit to-day that a nation which with my sheepdog Sweep and produces men of the fibre of an Ullswater foxhound, Rattler. "An artist was sketching those who continue to hold out

in Chapei against overwhelming there, and I walked over and sat near him. A few minutes odds, preferring death to sur-

there was a rustling render or retreat, possesses, rich later,

either animal again. material for the building of fu- noise, and I saw a large full for the stoat, but we didn't see grown stoat running a few feet ture greatness. While the stories told by Chinese newa agencies of "Dare-to-Die" units

away.

which have thrown themselves "Chasing it, some yaris he to death in the service of their hind, was a big rabit. The country have not been exactly artist heard the noise and said, disbelieved, they have been ac- What's that?' I didn't know cepted, in some quarters at least, for a moment if I could believe my eyes, so I didn't answer. Then he looked up and saw for himself.

because her belly was bare, but I don't know wether the stoat had been near them, although it looked as though she chased him from the Beck.

For Once the Victim

Unless there is a super rabbit

this shepherd's experience de- both weasel and stoat are drin- molishes a widely held theory, kers of blood may have some "I know the rabbit had young and is. of the deepest interest thing to do with the peculiar

behaviour of their victims. to naturalists.

Last November there was

"Is it possible," he asked, published long extracts from

Grant Mr. E. L.

Watson's "that the blood which has "Enigmas of Natural History," always been considered as the "I have lived in the country described as

one of the most vehicle of life, may. be, in some all my life, and my father is a important nature books publish- way which is at present quite gamekeeper, so I have seen a ed for years. One of the most unknown to us, under the in- few birds and beast, but I have fascinating chapters, was en- fluence of the creature which never seen a rabbit hunting a titled: "The Strange Case stont before and I've never the Rabbit that heard of anyone else who has.

stout or the weasel, even while within the veins of the victims, He described how a rabbit, thus destroying the normal in- tegrity of the instinctive com- "I remember how, ut Silloth, hunted by men or dogs, would the eyes of foreign troops on the place where the stoat had dis in 1917, my best ferret was put run for its life with a very good plex for self-preservation?"

This idea has been advanced

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This is not intended in any sense as a criticism of Mr. Grant Watson, but rather as a contri- bution to a subject to which he hus devoted so much of his life.

south bank of Soochow Creek appeared and sat motionless. they made their gallant stand. second or two later, the stoat to bolt a rabbit from a dyke. chance of escape, but that

peered out and we could see its She wouldn't go, and clouted rabbit, hunted by a stont, would by him us a suggestion, but it is pear so unlikely to anyone who refusing the refuge offered by head and forefest. The rabbit him with her hirul feel, so that go hunching and limping, as one, he says, which will not ap-

he came out and wouldn't face though the paralysis of fear straight at but accepting with gratitude a drummed herd with her hind her again. She did the same to were cramping all its muscles. has had the opportunity of close- two other ferrets. But I had "The chase is a short one," ly observing a rabbit or a stont, the or a weasel or a mouse, when share of Ulster Riflemen's ra- legs. The staat disapeared ins always believed that a rabbit he said, "for very

tantly, and the rabbit sat

was helpless with a stoat, and rabbit will crouch down in a associated in their instinctive re- tions smuggled to them and a motionless again.

there is no doubt that in most despair of panic to

await the lationship.

It would seem that whatever huge, resplendant Chinese flag

"A few seconds more, and out cases it looks as though the rab- swift coming of its pursuer, and from the Shanghai Chamber of popped the stent's head. The bit is paralysed when hunted. while it endures these last theories or opinions have been.

naturalists

that are agreed Commerce. It is doubtful if at rabbit drummed with its hind

There can be no doubt of the dreadful moments of its life, it held on this compelling subjects, there is an instinctive relation.. any point in China's history a legs once more, and the stoat

accuracy of Edward Kinnear's screams continually." observations. I think there is Mr. Grant Watson added that ship of rabbit and stoat, and that more gallant gesture has been went in.

"Then, Sweep chased the also little doubt that he is one we have no definite knowledge it is expressed by the destruc- made than by these few weary soldiers, the last of a rear-guard rabbit back to her burry near of the only men in the country of why or how the instincts of tion of the rabbit, which, from the Beck. The hound went up who has acen a rabbit hunting a rabbits and mice become per the observations of hundreds of which protected successfully the

to the wall and sniffed around stoat, and probably the only verted in this way when hunted people, has always appeared not retreat from Chapei. Their ex-

one whose experience has been. by the steat and weasel, but it only an easy but almost a will- so definitely recorded.

seems possible that the fact that ing victim. ploit will win the unhesitating acclaim of the world and undying which, in themselves, comprise a honour and respect from their strong case for preparedness. own people..

He says: "Mussolini wants peace in Europe until he and his Mr. David Lloyd George con- fellow-dictator are ready. "Pre- tinues to live up to his reputasumably he mens Herr Hitler. tion. When he rises in the

"He

is pouring troops into House of Commons this fiery, little Welshman

An unmuzzled dog ran into can be relied Libya," L. G. goes on, referring upon to keep the Press Gallery's now to Mussolini, "conquering Fruit Prices an esteemed con- police station the other day attention and win his way to the the Abyssinians, interfering in temporary reports that prices of Perhaps the sergeant on duty front pages, even though, in Palestine, fortifying positions inflard and charcoal have greatly was singing "Trees." these times, fellow Members of the Red Sea, establishing air and increased. Surely the heading the House are apt to listen with submarine bases in the Balearics, should have been "Tat's. In the an amused smile. But it would and another, at the Canary be a pity to under-rate Mr. Lloyd | Island" and is apparently mount,

☐ George. He possesses a know-ing German guns to threaten

European ladies are to be ledge of affairs at home and Gibraltar. All of these things abroad which most ministers of Mr. Lloyd George takes as taught Chinese cooking. We Civi ecrvants look decidedly | atont in some way “hypno- - the "Grown would be glad to weakening the strategic position suspect that they are becoming smart in their new uniforms. tisca" the rabbit has not been boast, and fow can improve of the British Empire. That is tired of that alibi "I'm going out They should not, however, stand proved, but has been assumed úpon. He is frankly suspicious probably true; but Mr. Lloyd to a Chinese Chow party to with thumbs in line with the after generations of men have, like Mr. Grant Watson, witness- of Italy and he thoroughly de George, or Great Britain, cannot night, dear."

scam of the trousers, and saluteed the dreadful helplessness of tests the Fascist dictatorship, find a law to stop it and the

like Admirals.

rabbits hunted by stonts. but when he sounds a warning, Welshman does not offer any

The Westmorland shepherd's such as he did yesterday, it must remedy. His remarks must be

As far as we can gather, Hong-accidental observation has shown not be concluded that his con- taken, as they are probably in-held at the Y.W.C.A. for cook-kong's refugees are leaving here that even the theory is unrelia

arrive in Shanghal as re-ble and presented a new and even:

more fascinating problem. cern is an outgrowth of pre-tended, to bo a warning against boys and amahs. The Young to

Women's Culinary Association. | fugees. judice. He marshals n fow facts unwariness.

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Edward Kinnear's experience would seem to show that this bloody relationship of the rabbit and stoat is not instinctive, for-- if one rabbit can hunt u stoat determina- with such fearless

tion and strike its traditional enemy with such fear, it is not unreasonable to assume that all: rabbits could hunt all stoats in the same manner.

Whether or not this power is given only to doe rabbits with young could be proved only after prolonged observations, if those were ever possible.

Cortainly the theory that the