INTELLIGENCE IN ANIMALS. 2 QI 



destroyed, the mother either did not recognise the 

 circumstance that all the male puppies were left, or 

 else regarded it as merely accidental; for otherwise 

 she would probably have tried with the second litter 

 the plan she actually tried with the third. When the 

 female puppies of the second litter were taken, she 

 recognised the rule by which selection had been made. 

 Thus she had up to this point reasoned well and with 

 due caution, not adopting a conclusion until the 

 evidence in its favour had become very strong and 

 convincing. She had also shown a power of counting ; 

 for obvious though the result she obtained may seem 

 to one of ourselves, capable of dealing readily with 

 much larger numbers, yet if we conceive a mind so 

 far inferior in matters of calculation to that of a 

 savage (and such savages are known) who can scarce 

 count up to five, and has to run through a process of 

 calculation before he can say how many children he 

 has, as the mind of such a savage is to that of a 

 skilful mathematician, we see that to such a mind the 

 process gone through by the animal in this case would 

 be what a very profound calculation would be to tho 

 mathematician. In other words, we here have evidence 

 that the difference between the mind of an animal 

 and the mind of man is but one of degree, and that 

 the animal is not more widely separated from man in 

 this respect, than the lowest among men is from the 

 highest. 



