Here, therefore, we have an example of an instinct developing itself on certain rare emergencies, causing unsocial species to become gregarious and to venture sometimes even to cross the ocean.
The great mass of them are too gregarious to take kindly to farming, and their strong commercial instinct hampers the experiment.
All gregarious animals have perfectly well defined social regulations, which the young must learn and respect.
Wherever there are barrens--treeless plains in the midst of dense forest--the caribou collect in small herds as winter comes on, following the old gregarious instinct.
Observe, conversely, a gregariousanimal separated from the herd, and you see marks of unhappiness while the separation continues, and equally distinct marks of joy on joining its companions.
In the one case there is no nervous structure which finds its sphere of action in the gregarious state, and in the other case such a structure exists.
When once a great gregarious unit of this type shall have been thoroughly organized, and be subject to conscious direction as a whole, there will appear in the world a new kind of social mechanism and a new biological form.
Trotter says that civilization has never brought a well-coördinated society, and that a gregarious unit consciously directed would be a new type of biological organism.
Where such markings occur on gregarious animals, Wallace believes that they have been evolved by natural selection, either to enable their possessors to recognize one another, or to act as a danger signal to their fellows.
Its gregarious brethren, the Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus coromandus), on the other hand, display no danger signal.
Crows, it is true, are not really courageous, but they are dangerous owing to their gregarious habits, and are dreaded by other creatures on account of their power of combination.
Even herons, though they fish separately, are gregarious in building, and also often in a sense pack during the day, standing together on a spit or sandbank.
Their life is so gregarious that it resembles that of men in cities: watching one another with feverish anxiety--pushing and bustling.
In a short time that terrible loneliness which comes to all men, for man is a gregarious animal, was experienced in all its horrors by this isolated trapper.
As wolves rarely travel alone, but are gregarious in their habits, the moment the brute has swallowed the bait and commenced to run, all make after him.
It is a singular fact, that we have gone backward in this last particular, within the present century, and all owing to the increasingly gregarious habits of the population.
The winged word of mouth is saturated with color, perhaps hot with feeling, musical with inflection, is the utterance of a living present personality, the consummation of man's gregarious instincts.
Solitude[17] which tends to make weak, agitated, and fearful, at this very gregarious age should be enforced with very great discretion.
Groups of gregarious animals are liable to panic; and the panic of a crowd of human beings seems to be generated by the same simple instinctive reactions as the panic of animals.
The simplest and purest type is the social club, a body of people who meet together to satisfy the promptings of the gregarious instinct and to enjoy the pleasures of group life.
Even if patriotism were nothing more than the direct expression of the gregarious instinct which we possess in common with many of the higher animals, that would not in itself condemn it.
In disparaging patriotism by describing it as the work of an instinct, the gregarious or the pugnacious or other instinct, or of several instincts, its critics are guilty of two psychological errors and a popular fallacy.
It is gregariousin its habits, associating in flocks of two or three hundred, delighting in marshy grounds, and at night perching upon trees, or on high situations.
Pasturage was now plentiful, and the gregarious instinct, which is present to a certain extent even in a Trek-Boer, prompted them to draw together.
Man is a gregarious animal, and the burthen of one's own presence galls as only those burthens do which carry as dead weight the broken shackles of one of Nature's disregarded laws.
Having been in the neighbourhood for some time, and being of a gregarious disposition, he had picked up a few acquaintances, with whom he indulged in an occasional chat when the opportunity offered.
Mr Peter Chawley was by nature a gregarious and communicative soul.
At any rate it is worthy of note that there are species living a quite isolated life in densely-inhabited regions, while the same species, or their nearest congeners, are gregarious in uninhabited countries.
And feelings of justice develop, more or less, with all gregarious animals.
Passenger Pigeons are always gregarious when unmolested, and hundreds of thousands sometimes breed in a neighborhood at one time.
But these instances, I think, are evidences alone that two females have deposited in the same nest, a supposition which is not improbable with the gregarious species.
Man is social by nature: gregarious by instinct, he is social with self-conscious will.
These gregarious animals, during the period of their supremacy, rarely remained for any great length of time in any given locality.
In its habits it is gregariousand collects in great numbers wherever its natural food of fish is plentiful.
Whether it really was so in our human sense, or whether it was simply an illustration of the instinct of mutual support which seems to prevail among gregarious birds, I know not.
They are gregarious and social, and probably in the fall have something like a reunion of the tribe.
But the fear of arousing the disapproval of his fellows, which is rooted in man's gregarious nature, inhibits the tendency to self-indulgence.
In such natures, the ultimate course of conduct will be determined by the relative strengths of the individualistic and gregarious impulses, other things being equal.
There is a school of thought which seeks in the so-called gregarious instincts an explanation of all that is characteristically social in the behavior of human beings.
Like others of the higher animals, man is a gregarious beast.
It is, however, sensitiveness to the behavior of the herd which has the most important effects upon the structure of the mind of the gregarious animal.
It is well known that gregariousanimals nearly always shun and desert a wounded member of the herd.
Taming is achieved by control of habits in transferring to man the filial and gregarious responses of the young naturally given to its parents and members of its kind.
What do you understand Trotter to mean by the gregarious instinct as a mechanism controlling conduct?
The latter is prevented in gregarious animals by close crowding and experienced in the reverse condition; hence it comes to be connected in the mind with separation and so acquires altogether unreasonable associations of harmfulness.
The rational recognition of the sequence of act and punishment is equally clear to the gregarious and to the solitary animal, but it is the former only who understands that he has committed a crime, who has, in fact, the sense of sin.
Of what significance is the distinction made by Trotter between (a) the three individual instincts, and (b) the gregarious instincts?
This sensitiveness is, as Sidis has clearly seen, closely associated with the suggestibility of the gregarious animal, and therefore with that of man.
Conscience, then, and the feelings of guilt and of duty are the peculiar possessions of the gregarious animal.
We call the disposition to live in the herd and to move in masses, gregariousness, and this gregariousness is ordinarily regarded as an instinct and undoubtedly is pretty largely determined in the original nature of gregarious animals.
