The Minds of Animals 



at the- hands of th(- invacU^r. And Ik- must he. ahh- to 

 enter int(j the soul and heart ol tht; indi\ idual animal 

 he \v(nild study, comini^ to th(' task ssinpathetically and 

 with a desire to understand and aj)i)rc;ciate. 



No one wonders novv;ida\s at the wa\ in which the 

 Indian elephant, born in the wilderness and captured in 

 maturity, enters in a few weeks into triendlw if dependent, 

 relations with man, and learns to be an excellent instrument 

 in his hands. 



1 am indel)ted to the Prince of Pless tor the inforn'iation 

 that the "mahouts" or kc'epers ol the Indian ekqjhants, 

 understand about a hundn-d distinct utterances — words, 

 practicalK — us<-d Ijy the ekqjhants, and that th(,'y, in turn, 

 may be said to tollow ev('ry word usee' by the " mahouts." 

 The weaker br.iin oives way natural!)' to the stronger, 

 with animals as with ourseh^es. l)Ut we fmd a numbc:r 

 of species amoni^ them which conu; (juickK into t;ntirely 

 unselfish relationship with men. 



kOr nearly tw('nt\' )-ears no one had succeeded in 

 bringing a )()ung African rhinoceros alive to k.urope. 



It s(jemed to me that the; cause of so many of the 

 young animals pining away when brought home without 

 a mother must Wi- in the neglect of what I may call a 

 spiritLial need. In all cases the mothers had been killed. 

 In the case of my young rhinoceros, 1 replaced the 

 mother by a she-goat. After a few days the young 

 " rhino " hati made such friends with her, without being- 

 suckled Ijy her, that he followed her about everywhere, 

 and even now, in captivity, is not to be partetl from her 

 and the kid she has since produced. 



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