ABSTRACT
This chapter argues the reports Aelian ascribes to Eudemus. Comparison with material from Aristotle and Theophrastus will show how he too contributed to the program of biological research in the early Lyceum. Like his colleagues, Eudemus was a naturalist in two basic respects: he sought both to record accurate observations of animal behavior and to interpret this behavior as the expression of natural capacities. Eudemus says that "a seal was aroused by a man who hunted for sponges, and emerging from the sea where a rocky cavern was, it would consort with him." Eudemus' two reports on lions also illustrate another sort of spirited disposition or character. The behavior of Eudemus' lions is fully consistent with this model of animal character. Eudemus' reports describe animals exercising a number of psychological capacities analogous to human ones.
