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Show ; DESCRIBES THE ANIMAL MIND Magazine Writer Bays Animals and Birds Do Not Have Powers of Thought When an animal acts In obedience to Its purely physical needs and according ac-cording to Us anatomical structure, as when ducks take to the water, or hens scratch, or bogs root, or woodpeckers wood-peckers drill, etc.. we do not credit It with powers of thought, saya John liurroughs In a recent number of the Atlantic. These and similar things snlmals do Instinctively When the wofnl mice got into my cabin the other oth-er day and opened two small Jars of butter that hMd loose tin tos, I did not credit them with anything like human Intelligence, because to use their paws deftly digging, climbing, manipulating U natural to mice. I have seen a chipmunk come Into a house from bis den In the woods and oien a pasteboard box with great deftness deft-ness and help himself to the nuU Inside, In-side, which, of course, he smelled. We do not credit a bird with rational Intelligence In-telligence when It builds Its nest, no matter hew skilfully It may weave or sew. or bow artfully It may hide from Its enemies. It Is doing precisely precise-ly as Its forrbesrs have done for countless count-less generations Hence, It acta from Inherited Impulse. Hut the monkey they told me about at the toologlcal park In Washington thai has L-ec seen to select a still straw from the bottom of Its cag' and use It to dislodge an Insect from a crsrk, showed a gleam of free Intelligence, Intelli-gence, It was an act of Judgment on the part of the monkey, akin to human Judgment. In like manner the chimpanzee chim-panzee Mr. Kornaday tells about, that used the trapex bar In the cage as a lever with which to pry off the hort-sontal hort-sontal bars on the side of the ri and otherwise ta demolish things, showed a V'nJ of Intelligence thst is ! above Instinct, and quite beyoo4 tb capacity, aay, of a dog. |