ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE 



out, seemed after a time to develop with great rapidity, 

 under the impulse of experience, was a rival in this 

 respect with the cat ; but that case is exceptional, I 

 must believe. 



As regards reasoning, I have in nowise changed the 

 opinions I expressed in my first paper on the dog, and 

 I would apply them with almost, if not quite equal, 

 force to the cat. 



Some General Conclusions. 



The conclusions that may be drawn from the diaries 

 of the dog and the cat respectively, with certain modi- 

 fications in some directions, hold for both. 



This applies especially to the larger proportion of 

 what is most fundamental, to what is instinctive, and 

 is bound up with the vegetative life of the creature. 



Nevertheless, even in some of these fundamentals of 

 psychic life there are differences, e.g. in the mode of 

 waiting for and securing prey, differences which appear 

 long before development is complete. 



Upon the whole, the cat develops more rapidly than 

 the dog. 



The greatest difference between the cat and the dog 

 is in their relations to man and to their own species. 



The dog is essentially a social and a gregarious 

 animal ; the cat an independent and solitary creature, 

 traits which are early shown. 



The dog is docile in the highest degree ; the cat to a 

 slight degree, as compared with the intelligence she 

 possesses. 



The cat is far in advance of the dog in power to 

 execute highly complex co-ordinated movements. 



In both the dog and cat the play instinct is early 

 and highly developed, but in the manifestation of this, 

 the peculiar qualities of each are well exhibited. 



