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Show DESCRIBES THE ANIMAL MIND Magailne Writer Sayt Animal and Blrda Do Not Have Powara of Thought. When an animal acts In obedience to Its purely physical need and according ac-cording to Its anatomical structure, aa when ducks take to the water, or hens acratch, or hog root, or woodpeckers wood-peckers drtll, etc.. we do not credit it with powers of thought, sayt John Rtirrougha in a recent number of the Atlantic. These and similar things animals do instinctively. When the wood mice got Into my cabin the other oth-er day and opened two small Jars of butter that had loose tin tops, I did not credit them with anything Ilka human intelligence, because to use their paws deftly digging, climbing, inanfl'tilatliik Is natural to mice. I have seen a chipmunk come Into a house from his den tn the woods and open a pasteboard box with great deft-m deft-m s and help himself to the nuts Inside, In-side, which, of course, he unelled. We do not credit a bird with rational In-telllgi In-telllgi nee w hen It builds Its nest, no matter bow skilfully It may weave or sew, or how artfully It may hide from Its enemleg. It Is doing precisely precise-ly as Its forebears have done for countless count-less generations. Hence, It acts from Inherited Impulse. Hut the monkey they told me about at thf zoological park In Washington th:r has !:er. sen to select a stiff straw from the bottom of Its cage, and nee It to dislodge an insect from a crack, show- d a gleam of free Intelligence. Intelli-gence. It was an act of Judgment on the part of the monkey, akin to human Judgment. In like manner the chimpanzee chim-panzee Mr. Mornaday tells about, that used the trapeze bar in the cage as a lever with which to pry off the horizontal hori-zontal bars on the side of the cage, and otherwise to demolish things, showed a kind of Intel',, gence that Is above Instinct, and quite beyond the capacity, say, of a dog. |
