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With this expression it is not likely that children, at least may have inherited a tendency to bite, which all be who have seen much of young children must have noticed: it seems with some an instinctive as with young orang or chimpanzee or the young alligators, which snap their little jaws when poked with stick immediately that they are liberated from their eggs /over

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smallest mound — or that young pigs, as I have seen, wh & young turkeys will squat when frightened, which the old never do; & or that kitten whilst very young are be much assured of being lifted up, which I have always attempted to as voluntary instinct carpeted with the habits of wild cat often finding be their young in holes of tree or clefts in precipices.

Do young rabbit show habit of burrowing?