- Cat and Kittens
Cat and Kittens - Group of kittens in a box
Group of kittens in a box - Light White and Sandy She-Cat and Kittens
Light White and Sandy She-Cat and Kittens - Bear Cub
Bear Cub - The dog took kindly to her foster-children
A wolf had an ordinary family of eight young ones. The keepers, probably thinking that these were too many for the captive wolf to bring up alone, divided the family. Four of them were left with their mother, and four of them were placed in charge of a collie. The dog took kindly to her foster-children, and reared them successfully with her own. - Cat with kittens
Cat with kittens - Brown horse and foal
Brown horse and foal - Horse and Foal
Horse and Foal - Horse family
Horse family - The Elephant, and its young
The Elephant, and its young - A cat cleaning her kitten
A cat cleaning her kitten - The Cat and the Pigeon
Affection for one of the feathered race was shown by a cat which was rearing several kittens. In another part of the loft a pigeon had built her nest; but her eggs and young having been frequently destroyed by rats, it seemed to occur to her that she should be in safer quarters near the cat. Puss, pleased with the confidence placed in her, invited the pigeon to remain near her, and a strong friendship was established between the two. They fed out of the same dish; and when Puss was absent, the pigeon, in return for the protection afforded her against the rats, constituted herself the defender of the kittens—and on any person approaching nearer than she liked, she would fly out and attack them with beak and wings, in the hope of driving them away from her young charges. Frequently, too, after this, when neither the kittens nor her own brood required her care, and the cat went out about the garden or fields, the pigeon might be seen fluttering close by her, for the sake of her society. - Cat licking a kitten
Cat licking a kitten - Kitten playing with ball
Kitten playing with a ball - Kitten Playing
Kitten Playing - Cat and five kittens
Cat and five kittens - Cat and Kitten
Cat and Kitten - tadpoles
- Girl playing with a kitten
Girl playing with a kitten - Two girls watching a family of ducks
Two girls watching a family of ducks - Birds waiting for feeding time
Birds waiting for feeding time - Mother hen with her chicks
Mother hen with her chicks - Bear with two cubs
Bear with two cubs - Bear with cubs
Bear with cubs - Two puppies and a cat
Two puppies and a cat - Ringed Plover, and young ones
When young birds live in the open, as on shingly beaches, then their down is mottled. How perfectly this harmonises with the surrounding stones only those who have tried to find young terns, or young ringed plover, for example, can tell. - Skylark, and young ones
The fact that many young birds which are quite helpless are now reared in nurseries on the ground, as in the case of young skylarks, is a fact of interest; for it shows that the parents have chosen this nesting site comparatively recently, and are of course unable to lay large eggs, which shall produce active young, like young chickens, at will. They have acquired the habit, so to speak, of laying small eggs, and cannot alter it by changing their nesting-place. - Tern, with young one
When young birds live in the open, as on shingly beaches, then their down is mottled. How perfectly this harmonises with the surrounding stones only those who have tried to find young terns, or young ringed plover, for example, can tell. - Peregrine Falcon, and young ones
As you doubtless know, however, some young birds, like young rooks and sparrows, thrushes and skylarks, when they leave the egg, are perfectly bare, blind, and helpless, and have to be fed and brooded by their mothers for a long time. Other young birds, like young owls, falcons, and hawks, also leave the egg blind and helpless, but their bodies are covered with long woolly down.