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There is a vast difference in the motives that 

 prompt animals in the execution of these feats. I 

 have elsewhere mentioned the fact that animals that 

 are caused to act from fear do so mechanically, and it 

 is not a true index to their intellect. While Consul 

 and a few other apes that I have seen do many- 

 things by imitation they do not do so from coercion. 

 They seem to understand the purpose and foresee 

 the results, and these impel them to act. 



Some of the feats performed by this ape I have 

 never seen attempted by any other. One accom- 

 plishment is riding a tricycle. He knows the 

 machine by the name of **bike," although it is not 

 really a bicycle. He can adjust it and mount it with 

 the skill of an acrobat. The ease and grace with 

 which he rides are sufficient to provoke the envy of 

 any boy in England. He propels it with great skill 

 and steers it with the accuracy of an expert. He 

 guides it around angles and obstacles in the way 

 with absolute precision. 



Consul is allowed to go at liberty a great deal of 

 his time, which is the proper way to treat these apes 

 in captivity. He rides the wheel for his own diver- 

 sion. He does not do it to gratify strangers or to 



show off." 



Another accomplishment which he has, is that of 

 smoking a pipe, cigar, or cigarette. It may not be 

 commended from a moral standpoint, but the act 

 appears to afford him quite as much pleasure as it 

 does the average boy when he first acquires it, and 

 he has also formed the habit of spitting as he smo kes, 



