CHAPTER V 



Evidences of Insight 



I have not given special attention to problems of sensi- 

 bility in Chim and Panzee and the following statements are 

 only roughly descriptive of the animals' equipment. Un- 

 doubtedly the sensory equipment of Chim and Panzee was 

 excellent and in general comparable in usefulness to that 

 of the normal man. Vision is clearly the dominant sense. 

 Smell is used frequently and effectively as a guiding sense, 

 especially in locating and testing foods. Touch, taste, and 

 kinesthetic sensibility are also important. 



OBSERVATIONAL ABILITY 



The use of vision, ever impressive, varied greatly from 

 time to time and with the two individuals. Chim, always 

 alert and interested in everything within the reach of his 

 senses, seemed never to tire of watching objects. Panzee, 

 on the contrary, seemed indifferent to most aspects of her 

 varied surroundings. When riding in an automobile Chim 

 would sit up at attention almost continuously, looking at 

 objects both near and distant and taking keen interest and 

 satisfaction in appearances and happenings about him. 

 Panzee was more likely to attend only to unusual appearances 

 or events and to those which for one reason or another com- 

 pelled interest or action. Similarly in case of distant vision, 

 Chim was interested, Panzee was not. He has repeatedly 

 been seen to gaze intently from the hilltop pasture into the 

 river valley or to the distant mountains. 



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