| Show The Brain of an Ant J THERE is is an old puzzle question which asks What is smaller than the mouth of a mite The answer is What goes into it Although an ant is a tiny creature yet its brain is even tinier But although it it itis is necessarily smaller i ithan than the ants ant's head which contains it If yet it is larger in proportion according according- to the ants ant's size than the brain of any known creature This we can easily believe when we read of this insects insect's b wonderful powers The quantity of ofin in in instinct instinct l. l or sagacity does not fully explain some of the stories told about them The best writers upon ants those who have made the astonishing intelligence of these little insects a special study are obliged to admit that they display I f reasoning ability calculation reflection and good judgment Such qualities of brain show a more than ordinary instinct instinct instinct in in- and we are not surprised to hear that the ants ant's big brain carries out our idea that he possesses a higher intelligence intelligence intelli intelli- gen gence e t than a is shown by other workers of his size SIze Har Harpers Harper's ers er's Young People n |
