ARE KANGAROOS KLEPTOMANIACS?

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 198, 11 August 1908, Page 4

ARE KANGAROOS KLEPTOMANIACS?

Have animals any moral sense'; Do they know right from wrong? .\ ,lr.Uagene proprietor was asked for his opinion on this matter. "Well," was his reply. "1 won't go so tar as u, sac that'thev have anv moral sense. !,„t tl„.y certainly know when they arc doing wrong, ami. generally, they h„jk very shamefaced when caught. " Monkeys have a peculiar trait. I'lie.vM rather steal a thing than get it honestly. Repliants are also prime to thieving. "One young | m il o icpliaiU j have used lo gel loose night after night, and steal anything in the edible line lie could lay his trunk on. Evvu tobacco was fair prey for hi in. "One of my girall'es. also, made isc of his long neck Io roach over his ca'.'e at night and consume sweets from a confeciiouery-sfall just outside. He'd cat anything and everything, and vet it never all'ed«d him in health. "'Some of the atlendanls used to have trouble with iheir straw brooms, which wore out uncommonly quickly. By watching, we found out that the brooms were left at night within reach of the camels, win, ate all the stra.v. and threw- the sticks down. After Unit we found a new place to keep the brooms."