“Young sheep and goats leap and gambol in their play. I have noticed young goats that were being led along the streets keep up an occasional jumping as they went along, leaping first one way then another, sometimes straight up into the air, as if they were worked by some unseen spring that went off suddenly inside of them. How strange such conduct must have seemed to the pre-Darwinians. But to the evolutionists it is as plain as day.”

— J. Howard Moore

"The School of Nature", p. 67
Savage Survivals (1916), Wild Survivals in Domesticated Animals

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1862–1916

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