. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. from a bottle, it almost at once saved the men the trouble of hold-ing it. It took the bottle from them in- its, trunk, held it to its mouth and sucked awaytill it was empty. Mr. Lockwood Kipling and others rather decry the elephantsnatural intelligence, saying that it works so much to order, that its services are almostlike those of a machine when you turn a handle. They do not say this in so manywords, but imply it. I think this is a mistake of a kind not uncommon. No doubtthe elephants actions, controlled by a series of n
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. from a bottle, it almost at once saved the men the trouble of hold-ing it. It took the bottle from them in- its, trunk, held it to its mouth and sucked awaytill it was empty. Mr. Lockwood Kipling and others rather decry the elephantsnatural intelligence, saying that it works so much to order, that its services are almostlike those of a machine when you turn a handle. They do not say this in so manywords, but imply it. I think this is a mistake of a kind not uncommon. No doubtthe elephants actions, controlled by a series of not intelligent methods, is mechanizedto any extent. He is so clever in understanding the limits of his teacher that hemakes himself a machine, working to pressure of the ankus and other signs. Horses,used for a very limited number of jobs, like bus horses, for instance, become mechanizedin the same way. Hence the saying out at the front that the artillery horses, largelyrecruited from our omnibuses, wanted a bell to start them. Ponies, which are used 8o Animal Life. Ihil III ipli I / ( lii I 1 HI liT \M Kreat animal specialist; his forte is engineering^. for all sorts of jobs,are generally muchbrighter and clevererthan draught are highly in-telligent, but theirservices to man arenecessarily so limitedthat it is not easy todevelop their allow-ance of brains. There remain twoother classes of crea-ture, the apes andbaboons and thosewonderful engineers,the beavers. Capacityof a kind the big apes have. They can learn to count and to understand much. But they never doanything useful, and their life in the great forests is stupid, unintelligent, and baboons are far different. They have almost the highest social organization amongmammals. They post sentries, organize for raids and mutual defence, and are individuallymost intelligent. But as they are uncertain in temper and dangerous beasts from thesize and strength of their jaws, they, again, do not get much chanc
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