WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



simply dumfounded by the tender friendship the bird 

 showed towards me. Even now, when I visit the zo- 

 ological gardens in Berlin, the present abode of the 

 bird, it recognizes me at once in ever so great a crowd. 



"There are more things in heaven and earth than 

 are dreamed of in our philosophy." This saying of 

 Hamlet's applies appropriately to the soul-life of ani- 

 mals, of which we have only a meagre conception. The 

 success of wireless telegraphy depends not on the 

 strength of the electric waves alone, but just as much 

 on the sensitiveness of the receiver. So we must bring 

 to the study of the soul-life of animals a sympathetic 

 mind besides a thorough knowledge of zoology. We 

 must live with the animals as we live among strange 

 peoples whose peculiarities we wish to understand. 

 And if we do so, we may come to realize that what we 

 have hitherto been calling instinct — a seemingly un- 

 changeable gift bestowed on animals by provident nature 

 — is, after all, intelligence, which has developed by de- 

 grees into what it now is, and is still developing tow- 

 ards higher fomis. Indeed, "there are more things in 

 heaven and earth. ..." 



