| Show SAYS ANIMALS DO REMEMBER Why Old Idea Is Wrong It J. Proved by by Incidents Rel Related ted by English Writer I have read rend an article in which a trapper den denies lei that animals have a areal areal real i-eai memory says a writer In the London London Lon Len don Times He admitted that most of them knew enough to avoid a trap after after atter af at- af- af ter an experience or two with It It but contended that this was merely a manifestation of ot the self tion Instinct The same man cited an instance Instance- not at all unfamiliar unfamiliar unfamiliar-of of a dogs dog's refusing refusing refusIng re re- re- re fusing to bu hunt t with a man who had bad kicked him He said that this too was only the Instinct of all living creatures to avoid Injury 7 Animals do have memory memory memory-at at least some gome of ot them 10 do The trappers trapper's theory would not explain those thole many evidences evidences evidences evi evi- dences of ot recollection wherein self self- preservation plays no part I once onca carried a a 11 terrier fox into the house after atter he lie had been well nigh killed by byan byan bynn an nn automobile His master had just moved Into the apartment house bouse and andI I had bad never seen the do dog before that day We moved away two days later and I did not see the terrier for tor over oyer four Cour months Then Tilen one day I passed the time house house or or was about to do so so so- when out came that dog wagging his stubby tall He Ho jumped all over me In 10 Joyful recognition and recognition and memory An amusing story significant on this thin subject Is told by my father As a aboy aboy aboy boy he lived on a a farm and was always always al at- ways a close student of animal nature The mare more he usually drove was old and fat and would never go iO faster taster than thao a wl walk k unless urged There were two roads to town one branching off from the other and a little shorter It had lund been Old Maad's Mauds custom to take this road of her own volition until OD ODone on one occasion a vicious dog barked at ather ather ather her a and d snapped at her legs After that the driver had to be on his guard Maud would speed d up when about 50 yards from the turn off and try to get by by It before she could be be restrained This showed not only memory but buta a sense for planning |
