Show FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE Editor When Telegram When we moved moed our old d cat went away a and d got lost She never turned up at our old home at a all l. l Isn't that unusual Isn't it true that that animas animals have a sense of direction better than ours MARION MAmON C. C B B. Many who have looked Into this thEa re refuse refuse re- re fuse ruse to ac accept ept the theory Cats dogs ants and homing pigeons are usually the e subjects of homing stories And Arid it is certainly hard har to tell just how instinct and training are balanced In in the carrier pigeon If It animals are carried away from home in Ina a closed box and whirled rapidly rapid y many times time before th they y are freed treed they do not go go back to their old homes home Of a swarm of bees treated treat treated ed in this way only third one-third returned returned re re- re turned to th their hives A company of ants str strayed aimlessly when taken feet from their bill hllL Probably animals have exactly the tho same sense sense of direction as man only only- it is more highly trained in them FRIEND OF OF THE rHE PEOPLE I |