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feet. For seventeen years it digs its way around in 

 absolute darkness, and then comes to the surface to join 

 in a marriage revelry of a few weeks. It is a full-fledged 

 creature of the air, though encased still in grave clothes 

 of parchment; but it soon splits these up the back, pulls 

 itself out, dries its powerful wings and flies away with 

 the whirr of an aerodrome to live but a few weeks." 



Certain fish have a habit of catching insects by squirt- 

 ing water on them so they will fall off the plants into the 

 water. 



Squirrels gather food for winter and hide it, but can 

 always find the graneries despite the deep snow. A rat 

 in Siberia, the Sagonies Pica, gathers grass in the fall 

 which it will need in the winter; and one observer states 

 that like any farmer he spreads it out to dry in the sun, 

 then collects it in ricks which it shelters from rain and 

 snow. 



The crested Grebe makes a raft which floats for a nest, 

 and i.f you get too near it, will push it away from you by 

 paddling, as you would a boat. 



I could go on indefinitely describing these different 

 actions of animals, showing that all animals, including 

 man and the insects, are intelligent beings. They appear 

 to us to be possessed of different degrees of intelligence, 

 but the fact, is that the one who may appear the most 

 stupid may be the most skillful in the particular line of 

 work which concerns him and his well being, in that 

 particular place in life where he exists. 



Wherein do the actions of animals that watch and pur- 

 sue their prey, lay snares for it, like the spider, and 

 devour it, differ from the actions of man, when he hunts 

 and does the same things? Wherein do the actions by 

 which the animal hides itself, avoids the snares laid for 

 it, invents deceptions for its defense, differ from the 



