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Show B. DESCRIBES THE'ANIMAL MIND H Magazine Writer Says Anlmala and JK Dlrcla Do Not Have Power of f Thought. When an animal nets In obedience to Its purely physical needs nnd according ac-cording to Its anatomical structure, as when ducks tnko to tho water, or hens scratch, or hogs root, or woodpeckers wood-peckers drill, etc., we do not credit It with powers of thought, says Jolin Burroughs In a recent number of tho Atlantic. Theso and similar things animals do Instinctively. When the wood mlco got Into my cabin the oth-or oth-or day and opened two small Jars of buttor that had loose tin tops, I did not credit them with anything llko human intelligence, bocauso to uso their paws deftly digging, climbing, manipulating Is natural to mice I have seen a chipmunk come Into a house from his den In tho woods and open a pasteboard box with great deftness deft-ness and help himself to tho nuts Inside, In-side, which, of course, ho smelted Wo do not credit a bird with rational Intelligence In-telligence when It builds Its nest, no matter how skilfully It may weave or sew, or how artfully It may hide from Its enemies. It Is doing precisely precise-ly as its forebears have dono for countless count-less generations, Henco, it acts from Inherited Impulse . But the monkey thoy told mo about at the zoological park In Washington that has been seen to select a stiff straw from tho bottom of Its cage, and use It to dlslodgo an Insect from a crack, showed a gleam of froo Intelligence. Intelli-gence. It whs an act of Judgment on tho part of tho monkey, akin to human Judgment. In llko manner tho chlm-panzeo chlm-panzeo Mr. Hornaday tolls about, that R used the trnpezo bar in tho cage as a ' levor with which to pry off the horl-VJR horl-VJR zontal burs on tho sldo of the cago, f and othorwlse to demolish things, showed a kind of Intollfgonco that Is I above Instinct, and quite beyond tho capacity, say. of u dog. |
