-*> The Minds of Animals 



at the hands of the invader. And he must be able to 

 enter into the soul and heart of the individual animal 

 he would study, coming to the task sympathetically and 

 with a desire to understand and appreciate. 



Xo one wonders nowadays at the way in which the 

 Indian elephant, born in the wilderness and captured in 

 maturity, enters in a few weeks into triendly, if dependent, 

 relations with man, and learns to be an excellent instrument 

 in his hands. 



I am indebted to the Prince of Pless tor the information 

 that the " mahouts " or keepers ot the Indian elephants, 

 understand about a hundred distinct utterances words, 

 practically used by the elephants, and that they, in turn, 

 may be said to follow every word used, by the " mahouts." 

 The weaker brain gives way naturally to the stronger, 

 with animals as with ourselves. But we find a number 

 of species among them which come quickly into entirely 

 unselfish relationship with men. 



For nearly twenty years no one had succeeded in 

 bringing a young African rhinoceros alive to Europe. 



It seemed to me that the cause of so many of the 

 young animals pining away when brought home without 

 a mother must lie in the neglect of what I may call a 

 spiritual need. In all cases the mothers had been killed. 

 In the case of my young rhinoceros, I replaced the 

 mother by a she-goat. After a few days the young 

 " rhino " had made such friends with her, without being 

 suckled by her, that he followed her about everywhere, 

 and even now, in captivity, is not to be parted from her 

 and the kid she has since produced. 



VOL. i. 11 1 



