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inhabitants of their larvae and pupae, which are the 

 only objects the robbers have in view. On the part 

 of the sanguineas this shows great cunning and looks 

 very much like intelligence. If a troop of apes at 

 war with others were to surround the forest home of 

 their foe and if a select squadron of the assailants were 

 to penetrate into the woods, whilst the other part lying 

 in ambush tried to capture the fugitives, how our 

 modern evolutionists would be delighted with these 

 apes ! Such an argument for animal intelligence they 

 would deem absolutely irrefutable, and they would 

 no doubt allow this to be an "intelligent stratagem." 

 But sad to say, not apes but merely ants are skilled in 

 such stratagems; yes, ants whose brain "can by no 

 means compare with the brain of the higher animals !" 

 If the development of the brain is the real cause of 

 intelligence, then, of course, apes ought to be at least 

 as intelligent as ants, or rather far more intelligent. 

 In reality the reverse is the case, and thus, things 

 look rather queer for modern evolutionism. 



Let us return to the military tactics of the sanguine 

 slavemaking ants. One characteristic feature, that of 

 reconnoitering the nest they wish to plunder, they have 

 in common with the Amazons. With these latter ants, 

 according to Forel's observations, and my own, single 

 individuals are wont to set out to investigate the site 

 of a slave nest, and thus frequently enable the whole 

 army of Amazons to advance in serried columns over 

 a distance of thirty yards or more almost in a straight 

 line to the place they had marked out. This surprising 

 fact repeatedly observed by Forel and by myself can 

 not be explained in any other than the above-men- 



