They further introduce other
elephants amongst the wild ones, and punish and break them in by
setting on the new-comers to chastise the others.
Animals that pair frequently and not at a single specific
season, as for instance animals domesticated by man, such as swine and
dogs, are found to indulge in such freaks to a lesser degree owing
to the frequency of their sexual intercourse.
Of female animals the mare is the most sexually wanton, and next
in order comes the cow. In fact, the mare is said to go a-horsing; and
the term derived from the habits of this one animal serves as a term
of abuse applicable to such females of the human species as are
unbridled in the way of sexual appetite. This is the common phenomenon
as observed in the sow when she is said to go a-boaring. The mare is
said also about this time to get wind-impregnated if not impregnated
by the stallion, and for this reason in Crete they never remove the
stallion from the mares; for when the mare gets into this condition
she runs away from all other horses. The mares under these
circumstances fly invariably either northwards or southwards, and
never towards either east or west.
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