RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1870.09.11. When a Boy strikes a donkey withdraws hind-quarter. CUL-DAR189.48. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR189 contains material for Darwin's book Expression of the emotions.
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Sept 11/70/ When a Boy strikes a donkey withdraws hind-quarter & tucks in tail as if all muscles acted together.
Huxley thinks Deer tuck in shut tails.— H Allen thinks Horse when savage tuck in tail. They do when biting each other —
I think when turning round to kick (over)
[In margin:] Murie & Flower
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Flower think says muscles in close contact by no means have tendency to act together — I must merely say this when hind quarter tucked in, tail closely withdrawn with various animals, so strong that it hardly appears as if tail withdraws merely to part blow or bite.—
[Expression, p. 124.]
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