42 THE MINDS AND MANNERS 



The Chimpanzee is the most intelligent of all animals below 

 man. His mind approaches most closely to that of man, and 

 it carries him farthest upward toward the human level. He 

 can learn more by training, and learn more easily, than any 

 other animal. 



The Orang-Utan is mentally next to the chimpanzee. 



The Indian Elephant in mental capacity is third from man. 



The high-class domestic Horse is a very wise and capable 

 animal; but this is chiefly due to its age-long association with 

 man, and education by him. Mentally the wild horse is a 

 very different animal, and in the intellectual scale it ranks 

 with the deer and antelopes. 



The Beaver manifests, in domestic economy, more intelli- 

 gence, mechanical skill and reasoning power than any other 

 wild animal. 



The Lion is endowed with keen perceptive facultiesfreason- 

 ing ability and judgment of a high order, and its mind is sur- 

 prisingly receptive. 



The Grizzly Bear is believed to be the wisest of all bears. 



The Pack Rat (Neotona) is the intellectual phenomenon of 

 the great group of gnawing animals. It is in a class by itself. 



The White Mountain Goat seems to be the wisest of all 

 the mountain summit animals whose habits are known to 

 zoologists and sportsmen. 



A high-class Dog is the animal that mentally is in closest 

 touch with the mind, the feelings and the impulses of man; 

 and it is the only one that can read a man's feelings from his 

 eyes and his facial expression. 



The Marvelous Beaver. Let us consider this animal as 

 an illuminating example of high-power intelligence. 



In domestic economy the beaver is the most intelligent of 

 all living mammals. His inherited knowledge, his original 

 ^thought, his reasoning power and his engineering and mechani- 

 cal skill in constructive works are marvelous and beyond com- 

 pare. In his manifold industrial activities, there is no other 

 mammal that is even a good second to him, 





