ment, but obviously a piece he had torn from one 

 of the anchored plants. 



Other events were not long delayed: on the 

 same day of this amazing discovery, I was the 

 actual witness to its masking maneuvers. I saw it 

 clean itself, go over its hooks and walking legs 

 with its claws, and further disguise itself in the 

 same manner and order of movements that were 

 employed in its normal condition. In short, during 

 the remainder of his life — which lasted three weeks 

 more — Jim, deprived of his brain, did not betray 

 any other abnormal condition beyond blindness. 

 He ate, walked, and even fought fairly well ; but 

 he could not see ; his choice of camouflaging mate- 

 rials was made only by physical contact — which is 

 to say, through touch. 



But to say that the sense of touch was the means 

 of his capacity for camouflaging, is to name and 

 not explain. Beneath these physical manifestations 

 lay the factor of instinct. And, as we have seen, 

 that the instinctive phenomena as expressed by 

 the physical actions can take place without the 

 cooperation of the brain, the implication is that 

 the spider-crab's famous intelligence in this con- 

 nection is a fiction. Its choice of colors, as well as 



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