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@Throughthemind: I found a dissertation that mentions material about Evans and animal rights, including this strange paragraph:
E. Evans, Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture(London: William Heinemann, 1896) and The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals(London: William Heinemann, 1906). The latter is a particularly fascinating overview –including the text of original documents in their original languages –of instances in which criminal charges were formally brought against animals, including those in which the animals sometimes were executed as a result. Many cases, as with the French pig hanged in 1408 for eating a small child, were domestic animals that had killed humans or done significant damage to crops. Others were the unfortunate (and most likely unwilling) partners in crime of humans charged with bestiality. But Evans also noted there was evidence, even in the medieval era, that humans occasionally felt obliged to concede what would now be called basic rights to various animals, and moreover, to do so within the established legal framework. In a case involving a 1587 infestation of locusts or harvest-flies, for instance, representatives of both the human plaintiffs and the arthropod defendants agreed that the insects themselves should have a small plot of land set aside for them, since they had the "right...to adequate means of subsistence, suited to their nature" (22-50). [1]
I don't have access to all these yet but Evans also authored "Progress and Perfectibility in the Lower Animals," Popular Science Monthly 40 (Dec. 1891), 174; "The Nearness of Animals to Man," Atlantic Monthly 69 (Feb. 1892), 172; "The Aesthetic Sense and Religious Sentiment in Animals," Popular Science Monthly 42 (Feb. 1893), 472; and "Ethical Relations Between Man and Beast," Popular Science Monthly45 (Sept. 1894), 634. Psychologist Guy (talk) 18:39, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
