The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals

own rules of logic. Had they not been able to do so, it is reasonable to suppose th

anyon of the Colorado. But few persons have seen the Canyon, and far fewer ever have proven its existence by descending t

: how far does their intelligence carry them? It is with puzzled surprise that we have noted the curious diligence of the professors of animal psychology in always writing of "animal behavior," an

dy of the animal mind that has been going on for two centuries, it is this. Animals do reas

"question" subject to debate. In the most intellectual of the quadrupeds, birds and reptiles, the display of fear, courage, love, hate, pleasure, displeasure, confidence, suspicion, jealousy, pity, greed and generosit

ouls?" we reply, "That is a debatable

rogression. To place a wild creature in a great artificial contrivance, fitted with doors, cords, levers, passages and what not, is enough to daze or frighten any timid animal out of its normal state of mind and nerves. To put a wild sapajou monkey,- weak, timid and afraid,-in a strange and formidable prison box

e mechanical monster, and have no st

is not the best way. It should be developed along the natural lines of the wild-animal mind. It shoul

too wet nor too dry, enclose an area of five acres with an unclimbable fence, and divide it into as many corrals as there are species to be experimented upon. Each

ea, and the meaning of seedtime and harvest. I would teach sanitation and cleanliness of habit,-a thing much more easily done than most persons suppose. I would teach my apes t

ed rhesus monkey. My apes would begin at two years old, because after seven or eight years

een good food and bad food. Any trainer can teach an animal the difference between the blessings of pea

es, were in a good place, and made a good beginning. It is very much to be hoped that means will be provided b

lop the mind of a young grizzly bear in a four-acre lot, t