Anaconda's Experiment 7 Young Calves

He did an experiment where he placed 7 young calves in an anaconda’s cage and only one calf was swallowed by the snake. As soon as the snake was full, it did not bother the other calves. He repeated the experiment a couple of times with the same results. He also did another experiment where he gave hundreds of tame and wild animals including squirrels, bees, and ants the chance to gather as much food as they want and once they had what they needed they stopped. Another experiment that he did was to place a cat and dog in a cage and after an hour he trained them to become friends. Then he added a rabbit and he got the same results. After 2 days he had a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves and monkey in the same cage and they were not bothering
each other. But when he placed in another cage men of different religious backgrounds they all killed each other. Twain was not being sincere when he claimed he ran these tests. He was being satirical. His purpose in describing them was to point out man’s bad traits like avarice, greed, cruelty, revenge, among other things.