Hi, Ardith Hinton!   
   I read your message from  03.09.2015 13:36   
   about Animal gender.   
      
    ak>>>  Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path;   
   ....   
    ak>> Is Bagheera a male animal, or it can be a female one? I know that   
    ak>> in English many animals are generally spoken of with "he" as their   
    ak>> pronoun.   
      
      
    AH> Until the late 20th century, "he" was a standard default position   
    AH> in formal English when the gender of some individual person or   
    AH> animal could not be easily determined. Anybody who could describe   
    AH> Bagheera as well as Kipling does here, however, would almost   
    AH> certainly be aware of this animal's gender.... ;-)   
      
   Your point is unclear. :) How could I be aware of it? If "he" is a standard   
   default in Kipling's time, we can expect that we will use "his" to that   
   animal. We cannot use "he" and "her" simultaneously?   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
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