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Are our domestic animals • be-
loecoming mor e intelligent?
Biave our pets memories? Can
At be proved that animals think?
Three fascinating questions
ilor the millions of animal lovers
in Britain. Three questions
which in 1955 professional ob-
slervers of animal behaviour and
ee ychology are trying hard to
Answer accurately.
Every year the results of ani-
mal research seem to point
whore and more to the possibility
'Mat domestic pets all over the
world are gradually growing
ilaore intelligent.
To -day experiments designed
to test the intelligence of ani-
mals are constantly taking
glace.
Only a short time ago four
:keen young university psycholo-
gists in the United States spent
weeks in a private zoo trying
to find out the extent of animal
brainpower.
They devoted many hours
eavery day to matching their
wits against those of monkeys,
elephants, sea -lions and other
*natures in earnest efforts to
ifincover secrets of the evolution
• +D1 intelligence in our dumb
friends..
Dumb firiericle.? They found that
aanimais - are not so dumb as
dome people seem to think. That
home animals not only possess
brains but use them to good
ffect.
One elephant, they discover-
ed could always remember that
atle apple was tied to a string
That terminated under a piece
of black paper instead of white
or green paper.
.A bison regularly escaped
from his enclosure by lifting
'the padlocked gate carefully off
its hinges.
A monkey systematically
sled up wooden boxes in a
slur -storied structure in order
do reach an objective.
.A bull performed the amaz-
ing feat of taking a stick in his
mouth and using it to scratch
tills back, thus corning near to
lagan as a tool user. •
Two of the psychologists stay-
ed all night in the zoo so that
their research might be as thor-
ough as possible.
When a zoologist, in the
hourse of his investigations into
the possible reasoning power of
animals, was asked to list the
ten most intelligent animals in
the world to -day he did so with-
out hesitation.
Taking intelligence to mean
original thought, memory, rea-
honing p0 w e r, imitativeness
and capacity for training, he
said he had found the
ent
zee the most intelligent and
brainy animal,
The other nine followed' m
this order: orang-utan, elephant,
gorilla, domestic dog, beaver,
domestic horse, sea -lion, bear
and domestic cat.
The latest research into ani-
mal behaviour, instincts and in-
telligence has brought to light
some astonishing instances of
some animals' ability to think
for themselves.
A monkey kept as a pet in a
New York home acted with sur-
prising "presence of mind"
when the place caught fire, It
dragged a sleeping child from a
cot and carried the infant to
a place of safety with the ut-
most gentleness.
It is obvious, of course, that
some animals do many things
instinctively and not by means
of powers of reasoning, but
how can we account for the re-
sourcefulness shown at the Lon-
don Zoo by an elephant when a
little girl offered it a bun some
time ago?
The girl's nerve failed her
suddenly and she let the bun
fall — out of the elephant's and
• her own reach.
After stretching veinier -for it,
the 'elephant thought out its
own solution to the •pxi blew. It
moved its trunk to -one side and
blew down at and towards the
bun which rolled a few inches
nearer the girl. It continued to
blow down its trunk until the
bun rolled near enough to be
grasped and thrown back • to
Jumbo.
Says a famous naturalist who
saw the incident: "It was im-
possible to term the elephant's
actions instinctive, to say they
were due to hereditary respon-
ses, or to use any other of•
those formulae we are so apt
to fit to animal actions."
No, many animals' marvellous
sagacity is certainly not all in-
stinct.
Horse sense is another phase
of animal intelligence which is
increasingly coming under the
searchlight of science. In a Car-
marthenshire mine a man
named Stephens was conveying
coal in a horse-drawn truck
from the coal -face when his
horse suddenly stopped.
It only started forward again
reluctantly, at the repeated urg-
ing of its driver. As it did so a
post supporting the roof, forced
out of position by what is
known • as a "squeeze," was
caught by the truck. It fell and
let down fifteen tons of coal
from the roof.
• Poor Stephens was buried by
the coal, suffering injuries from
NATAL ACCIDENT — Injured boat racer Lloyd Maddock is pulled
from the Detroit River by Dallas Kremer after Maddock's boat
was involved in an accident during the Detroit Memorial Re-
gatta. Maddock's boat sunk after being hit by another racer.
Maddock died en route to the hospital.
GENUINE "CLOTHESHORSE" — Owner Rachel Maltby introduces
"Union Jack," right, to the aloof, best -dressed stand-in for the
entrants in the Richmond Royal Horse Show, Richmond, Eng-
land. Hood an,d blanket are only one of the many costumes
which "Snooty" models for an equine accessory manufacturer.
Like many real-life "clotheshorses," the haughty steed is a
dummy...
which he died. He might have
escaped his fate had he given
heed to the horse's danger signal. .
Pit ponies usually come to a
standstill when they hear the
dreaded "squeeze" movement in
the coal or rock,. .or when in
other ways they detect impend-
ing danger. "They seem to rea-
son,", a pit inspector once de-
clared.
A horse which could "spell
simple words, do mathematical
calculations including square
roots and long division," was
mentioned by Herr Karl Kroll,
of Munich, at an international
congress in Paris in 1927.
He said that nearly all ani-
mals, especially horses and
dogs, have a power of compre-
hension and interpretation rare-
ly appreciated.
"Pet animals do not begin to
exercise logical thought imme-
diately, but they soon respond
to thoughts that are transmitted
to them by humans," he claim-
ed. "Don't expectyour ainmals
to talk and converse with you,
but they will understand and
make themselves understood.
"You must penetrate the very
soul of the animal. Once he
realizes you are his friend, he
will use his intelligence to
manifest it in remarkable
ways." -
Official OK For
Abomina' Isle
Snowman
The British Air Ministry has
decorated the Abominable
Snowman of the Himalayas.
In an official announcement,
it has awarded this legendary
creature — locally called the
Yeti, when it is not in earshot
— the accolade of credence.
The Yeti, which has always
been thought to be rather more
than life-size, has been . de-
scribed as half ape, half bear,
and half imagination.
It lives in the snows at high
altitudes and leads a pretty
lonely existence, they say. Ac-
cording to Sherpas, who are
almost the only people to be
able to claim having seen Yetis,
It is covered in matted red hair
and has a peaked head.
An abominable snowman is
certainly something or someone
you'd recognize the next time
you saw one. Which has always
made it seem odd that almost
nobody has personnaily seen a
Yeti for five or 10 years, or
maybe more. But climbers have
reported seeing strange foot-
prints in the snow.
And now comes the Air Min-
istry with news of the clearest,
most definite and biggest feet
ever printed.
The feet were 12 inches long.
They had sunk 11 inches in the
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DAVY CROCKETT RUNS WILD Brill Staples, 6, better known to his. cronies as Davy Crockett,
dues his nose against the window of a department stare the better to ogle coon -skin hots, six-
guns, stage coaches and — shades of the Alamo --- brief cases. Anything that remotely
Smacks of the frontier and much that doesn't is riding the tail of Davy Crockett's
legendary coon -skin cam during his reign over the imagination of the nation's small fry.
FINNY FASHION — Symphony
in styling for underwater fish-
ermen is exhibited by Met's
top basso, Jerome Hines, who
"models" a striped sheepshead
which goes well with his pat-
terned sweater, as he comes
from the water.
snow. The feet of the men who
found the prints only went one
inch down into the snow. What-
ever made the tracks was
mighty heavy. Maybe it had a
chip on its shoulder.
"The discovery was made in
the Kulti Valley, where the
Royal Air Force expedition to
the Himalayas are now explor-
ing," climbing, and surveying,
after having been forced by ab-
normally severe snow condi-
tions to switch their plans from
t h e Kulu-Spiti-Lahoul water-
shed, originally chosen for
olierations," the Air Ministry
announces.
"The signal, from Squadron
Leader L. W. Davies, the ex-
peditions transport officer, said
that Wing Comdr. A. J. M.
Smyth and Sgt. J. R. Lees were,
on June 12 en route together
from the expedition's base camp
to its camp No. 1, and at 12,-
375 feet above sea level they
came upon the tracks of an ex-
ceptionally large animal in the
deep snow.
"Wing Commander Smyth at
once dispatched a porter to the
base camp to bring up Squad-
ron Leader Davies with photo-
graphic equipment, with which
he subsequently took many still
and cine photographs. He also
drew a diagram.
"There were many prints,
each measuring about 12 inches
by 6, and indicating that the
creature who made thein was
two -legged, with five toes a
quarter of an inch wide on each
foot."
The animal had apparently
swum three fast - running
streams, it is reported. Its prints
went up the steep east valley
and disappeared.
And that for the moment is
that. And a pretty queer that,
too.
KEEP IT DARK
A scientist, visiting Charles F.
Kettering, took exception to the
famous inventor's observations
on Diesel locomotives. "You say
you're running these locomotiveq
at about 100 miles an hour?"
queried the visitor,
"Yes," affirmed Kettering.
"And that you're taking .rower
on the front wheels?"
"We are."
"But all the formulas say that`s
impossible."
"Heavens!" exclaimed Ket ter.
ing, with a furtive glance about
him, ".'lease don't tell that to
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A Human Fox
When a convict escapes from
prison he doesn't expect to be
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was with a convict who, one day
in October 1937, escaped with
astonishing ease from the prison
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Some hours after his dawn
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some bushes and began to de-
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and by cleverly using the many
clumps of trees, bushes, and
rocks dotted over the rough
countryside, he was able- to
elude his pursuers for some
hours. But at last, exhausted
and hungry, he was cornered.
Weary though he was, he
could not stifle a gasp of sur-
prise as he saw how great was
the party—and the fact that all
were dressed for fox-hunting.
There were even a number of
smartly groomed women in the
party, which ' was led by the
sheriff, John Miller.
Escorted back to jail, a fur-
ther surprise awaited the youth-
ful convict. Ordered to take a
bath, he was presented with a
clean civilian suit and told to
dress. Then he was taken to
the sheriff's quarters, to be the
guest of honour at a magnificent
dinner given to all of the 130
huntsmen who had successfully
cornered the convict earlier
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toasts and speeches were being
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truth.
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with high social connections, had
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some novel way of entertaining
his friends --and especially his
lady friends. So he conceived
the startling idea of deliberate-
ly "arranging" that a convict
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of escaping had suddenly pre-
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an envelope to the convict and
then had him taken back to his
eels. The envelope contained ten
dollars, the cost, no doubt, of
the hire of one human fox for
a day.
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