Show COLOR SENSE IN ANIMALS possessed to H gh degree by some espee ally by ads A hypothesis that the sense of coloia Is possessed to a high degree by am mals and esi by birds furnished a basis for some of the most beautiful and fecund of the darwinian theone of sex al selection says the scientific american no diew mist do abts that the bullivant bulli ant colors of male birds are to attract the attention of the female buds and this presupposes ire supposes naturally on the part of tl ese birds a fine sease of color wallace has that to the tact that certain i lants bear fruit 0 brilliant colors is due their preserve pre serva t on the animals attracted by these colors break the fruits from the trees or plants carry them aft and thus in directly assist in the dissemination of the seeds which they contain over large tracts of land and this bunc tion of selection on the part of ani mals presupposes in them a certain sense of chloi still scientific docu ments in support of these hypotheses aie rare dahl alluding to the scarcity of them in an article in a recent number of the nature ensch itt rebates some interesting ex ts which he made with a mon key he colored so ne sweets with a certain colo ed dye and some bitter substances with that of another color and declared arec tl at after a few attempts the monkey learned to leave without tasting even these articles of food col 01 a with the de wh ch indicate ind cate 1 itter tasting substances and seized at once lion those which indicated sweets arbing tl e exi or ments ruffic ent ly he found that the monkey dibbin all the bolois read liy sae barp darp blue dahl calls to t e fa t hat maer aas stated blat n an sa age tribes can not d stin sh i t 11 e from black and that even children do not distin g sh tl color until later tl an all others |