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apes which think. CONDON, l-eh. i. Between 1913 and 1917, the author (Wolfunn<; Kohler) of ‘‘l he Mentality of Apes,** carried out, at the an thropoid station in Tenerille, a series ol elaborate tests with chimpanzees to discover to what extent their intelligence was analogous to that of mankind. Chimpanzees, like human beings, apparently vary greatly in their mentality Tiie author found that some were callable of piling four big boxes on the top of one another to climb up to some desired object, orange or banana, and also of lifting one stick into the end m another to make a long stick by wind a desired object could be .earned through the bars of a cage. Ollier tilings emerged in this course ~!' Ids painstaking and prolonged studyi;s?, for example, that chimpanzees are subject to sudden, unaccountable rages; that they easily get bored, and will not do on one day that they could do hcfoic , that thev have passing “crazes, which continue for a lew weeks and then die out • and that the older they grow the more indolent they become. . Sometimes their behaviour is seemingly human; one story will suttice ' l went up to a iliimnauz.ee on cue occasion when I had run a splinter mW one of mv fingers and pointed it i to him. He examined the wound, seized mv hand, and forced out the sp inter l>v two very skilful, hut somewhat painful squeezes with his linger-,unis; he then examined by hand again ui closely, and let it fall, satisfied witn lawork. ..

FOX IN A CHIMNKV. London. Fob. u>. Chased bv the Cowdray hounds for lo miles, a fox ran into the grounds o Buriton House, near 1 etersneU' H. .upshire, the residence oi Mr h. (*. n° f ham Carter, it. jumped through one 01 th-. windows into the house and was chased out. ~ It then ran across toe lawn intt ■ greenhouse, where it vanished up the chimney. , ~ 1 Efforts to smoke out tne t' : x tai.e-. . Bricks were next removed by workmen, iUl d when the fox was readied it was found that four live rabbits were with it in the chimney. Ihe rabbits bad apparently run up this chimpey for refuge in the same wav as the fox.

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