INSTINCT OR INTELLIGENCE?

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3384, 13 January 1920, Page 3

INSTINCT OR INTELLIGENCE?

Some almost incredible instanégg of the humanlike ways of baboons are recorded by Mr F. W. Fitzsimmons, director of the Port Elizabeth Museum. Mbst ex.tl'nol'dinal-y of all \\''as the intelligencevdisplayed by “Jack the Si-gnahnan” of Uitenhage. Jack was a. baboon who for nine years previous to 1890, when he died of tuberculosis. served as aniunderstndy to a legless pointsnvan and signalxnz-m on Thu (.‘rrafl’ Remet line called \Vilde, wheeled him in a. iorry to and from his work, assisted him in his garden. and in his household operations, and for years worked the levels at the signal station. wit_hnut error or accident. “A gentleman told me how he watched Jack adjusting the trolley ion the rails in front of his master’s cottage. This job conipleterl he went into the cottage fur Wo]de’s walking stick, which had been f 01~ gotten, and on emerging he care.t'uily locked the door and handed both he)‘ and stick to his master, who was sitting on the trolle}'."’