RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. 'Social Instincts'. Abstract of Brown, Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1868. CUL-DAR80.B87. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2021. 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 volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 74-5. n7: "Mr. R. Browne in 'Proc. Zoolog. Soc.' 1868, p. 409."
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Social Instincts
Proc. Z. Soc. 1868 p. 409 Mr R. Brown says seals "when asleep always leave sentinels on the watch, which strange to say are for the most part females"
Sympathy & pleasure in Mr Buxton unique case with social parrots.
Blyth with Indian Blind crows = Morgan Pelicans = Beaver = that this whether justly or not may be said to be blind instinct.
When cows or other animals surround a dying or dead fellow, who can say what their feelings are; but the reasons of sympathy is sometimes shown when a wounded deer is driven from the herd some have supposed this is an instinct acquired for the protection of the herd from pursuing beasts of prey.
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