80 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 
The question of the comparative intelli- 
gence of the Apes and Monkeys, and the 
carnivorous animals subsequently described in 
these pages, is an interesting one. It would 
seem at first as if the Cat Tribe and their rela- 
tions, which have to obtain their prey by con- 
stant hunting, and often to make use of consid- 
erable reflection and thought to bring their 
enterprises against other animals to a successful 
issue, would be more likely to develop intelli- 
gence and to improve in brain-power than the 
great Apes, which find an easy living in the 
tropical forests, and only seek fruits and vegeta- 
bles for their food. Yet it is quite certain that 
this is not the case. The Cat Tribe, with the 
exception of the domesticated cats, does not 
show high ‘intelligence. Even the latter are 
seldom trained to obey man, though they learn 
to accommodate themselves to his ways of life. 
There is no evidence that cats have any sense of 
number, or that any of them in a wild state make 
any effort to provide shelter for themselves or 
construct a refuge from their enemies, though 
the Leopard will make use of a cave as a lair. 
In matters requiring intelligence and coopera- 
tion, such roderits as the Beaver, or even the 
Squirrel, are far beyond the feline carnivora in 
sagacity and acquired or inherited ingenuity. 
Except the Stoat, which sometimes hunts in 
packs, no species of the carnivora yet dealt with 
in this work combines to hunt its prey, or for 
defense against enemies. Each for itself is the 
rule, and even among the less-specialised flesh- 
Photo by AS. Rudland & Scns — eating animals of the other groups it is only 
MEERKAT the Dog Tribe which seems to understand the 
A emia, mainly acl amen? in South Africas alo rinciples of association for a common object. 
CHAPTER Ly 
THE HYENAS AND AARD-WOLF 
F every animal has its place in nature, we must suppose that the hyzena’s business is to clear 
up the bones and such parts of the animal dead as the vultures and other natural ‘‘ under- 
takers” cannot devour. Hyzenas have very strong jaws, capable of crushing almost any 
bone. In prehistoric times they were common in England, and lived in the caves of Derbyshire 
and Devon. In these caves many bones were found quite smashed up, as if by some very large 
wild animal. It was supposed that this was done by bears—Dean Buckland said « by hyzenas.” 
He procured a hyzna, kept it at his house, and fed it on bones. The smashed fragments he laid 
on the table at a scientific lecture beside the fragments from the caverns. The resemblance was 
identical, and the Dean triumphed. 
