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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.

Brown, Robert. 1868. Notes on the history and geographical relations of the Pinnipedia frequenting the Spitzbergen and Greenland Seas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 36 no. 3 (December): 405-440. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U1388] PDF Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 74-5. n7: "Mr. R. Browne in 'Proc. Zoolog. Soc.' 1868, p. 409."