The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1872.02.21. Jackals turn round & round before going to sleep. CUL-DAR189.62. 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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Feb 21/72/ Ch. I. p. p 20

p 20?)

Jackals turn round & round, before going to sleep & so do Fennecs & other allied animals.— I have not been able to ascertain whether wolves do so.

Many animals in Z. Garden lift up the tail when excited — The Elephant stretches straight behind

Cerrus tacral // [Astra] (Monkeys)

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Jackals, fennec & other allied animals in the z. gdn treat their straw in the manner before going to sleep; but it in a rather odd circumstance that the keeper, after looking out for some months has never seen the wolves behaves in this manner.

[Expression, p. 42.]

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