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Title: Familiar wild animals
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lottridge, Silas Alpha, 1863-
Subjects: Animal behavior
Publisher: New York, H. Holt
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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protest strongly with a hissing noise,similar to the prolonged sound of the letter a incare, accompanied by a snapping of his beak. Bettybecame so tame that my little daughter could scratchthe owls head, and it would have been difficult totell from the appearance which one enjoyed it themore. The little owls soon came to know my voice. WhenI called his name, Billy in particular would give mehis peculiar cry of a, even before I was in sight.If he failed to answer, I always tried to get him to1 speak before I would give him his portion of food.It was evident that this sound expressed with himmore than one thing, and it seemed to me to be dif-ferently accented on different occasions. I did notthink at the time that this training would serve inany particular way, except that it would probablystrengthen certain points that have to do with animalintelligence. Upon arriving home one day, how-ever, I was told that Billy and Betty had escaped, andthat, although the basement had been thoroughly
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PQ The Screech Owl 107 searched, neither could be found. I myself searchedthe basement again, but with no better success. Fi-nally I called Billy, Billy/ and listened. Billypromptly responded by giving the sound of a, and,guided by the sense of hearing, I found him sittingon the gas pipe close by a joist, with Betty beside him. The next morning I put a basin of water into a box,and in a short time Billy was taking a bath, and whenhe had completed it, he was the wettest bird that Iever saw; even the feathers on the top of his headwere wet. After this Billy took a bath very often,but Betty less often. I placed them in bushes several times, just to seewhat they would do. Both of them could fly well, butthey did not seem to think of it when out-of-doors.When all was quiet they would remain motion-less; startle one, however, and it would open its eyeswide, but if the light was bright the bird wouldquickly bring the lids close together, forming a mereslit, thus shutting out most of the ligh

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