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Gulliver often goes out to study the Yahoos in order to learn more about human nature. The master horse consents to this and sends along one of his servants for Gulliver’s protection. Gulliver recounts that the Yahoos often approach him during his observations and imitate his movements like “monkeys.” He once tries to capture a toddler Yahoo for closer examination but his efforts to subdue it don’t work and the baby squirms, bites, and defecates all over Gulliver before escaping. Gulliver explains that, among the Houyhnhmns, the Yahoos are kept in kennels, sent to dig up roots and catch small game in fields, and fish. Once while Gulliver is swimming in a river he is assaulted by a young female Yahoo who can’t contain her lust for him. Gulliver is mortified by the incident, feeling he can no longer deny that he is “a real Yahoo” since the female Yahoos recognize him as a potential mate. Gulliver goes on to describe the ways of the Houyhnhnms. Their reason is so perfect and absolute that they never have disagreements or differences of opinion—in fact, they don’t even have a word for “opinion.” They love all of their species equally and treat their relations as well as they treat neighbors and strangers. They don’t show their children affection but instead educate them in reason. The Houyhnhnms practice family planning so that each marriage is arranged by family and friends of a couple to balance the partners’ respective strength and beauty without giving thought to “courtship, love, presents, jointures, settlements.” Each couple has two offspring, one colt and one foal, before stopping (servant couples have three in order to keep the households well-stocked with servants). The Houyhnhnms’ children are educated in “temperance, industry, exercise…cleanliness,” “strength, speed, and hardiness,” and both genders receive the same kind and degree of education. The master horse is disgusted by human Yahoos’ propensity to discriminate between male and female education. Every four years, a representative council of all the land meets to discuss “the state and condition of the several districts” and then immediately supplies undersupplied districts with hay, oats, cows, Yahoos, or extra children.