Pen Th Te 
SQUIRRELS: THEIR HABITS AND INTELLI- 
GENCE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO 
FEIGNING. 
WITH AN APPENDIX 
UPON THE CHICKAREE, OR RED SQUIRREL. 
1B 
Untit recently the habits of animals seem to have 
been considered simply as interesting manifestations of 
their life, but without any special reference to their 
relations to the intellectual part of the creatures 
concerned. But unless we assume that animals are ~ 
devoid of mind and true intelligence—an extreme and 
untenable position—there must be a possible science of 
Comparative Psychology, as there is of Comparative 
Anatomy and Physiology. The study of animal intelli- 
gence is possible, interesting, and important, whether 
we regard man as derived from some lower form, and 
his intellectual as well as his physical being the result 
of evolution, or whether we consider that man stands 
wholly apart in origin either as to body or mind. In 
the latter case the study of the lower forms of mind 
affords a useful contrast with its highest develop- 
ment as seen in man; in the former we aim at the 
construction of a ladder by which we may climb from 
the simplest manifestations of consciousness to the 
highest performances of the most gigantic human 
intellect. 
I have selected the study of squirrel psychology as 
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