. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Eeproduced by i^ermission of Sir Harry Johnston from his i A YOUNG AFRICAN ELEPHANTOne of Sir Harry Johnstons pets in Uganda, 78 The Uganda Protec Animal Brains—Which is the Cleverest Animal ? 79 which greeted this performance will please be understood. Stop a bit, said the dogsmaster. Here, Eover, give it to me, and the dog brought the kettle to him. Takingit from his mouth, his master put his hand into the kettle, the lid being off, and tookout the partridge. Chased by the dog, it had crept into the kettle to hide, and the
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Eeproduced by i^ermission of Sir Harry Johnston from his i A YOUNG AFRICAN ELEPHANTOne of Sir Harry Johnstons pets in Uganda, 78 The Uganda Protec Animal Brains—Which is the Cleverest Animal ? 79 which greeted this performance will please be understood. Stop a bit, said the dogsmaster. Here, Eover, give it to me, and the dog brought the kettle to him. Takingit from his mouth, his master put his hand into the kettle, the lid being off, and tookout the partridge. Chased by the dog, it had crept into the kettle to hide, and the dog,not being able to draw it out, just brought the lot. On the other hand, I imagine that the capacity for being taught is greater in theelephant than in the dog. It begins, for one thing, so astonishingly early. In thecivilized province of Uganda the natives consented at once to the notion of trying to. Photograpli bi/ C. Ttri,l, Wisliuiv. FLAT COATED EETHIEVEE. See the Authors story about the Retriever and the Partridge. tame the African elephant. They caught a little one, not weaned, and brought it to SirHarry Johnston. In thi-ee days it was perfectly tame and busy learning the new would come into the rooms without fear and touch and smell the. unfamiliar objectsin them. Being fed 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 und
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