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Title: The Forum
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York, N.Y.: (Events Pub. Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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s faithful com-panion, the dog, but I have lived among chimpanzees, aswell as among dogs, for twenty-seven years. mans influence upon animals CO it is with the domesticated cat. One must compare himwith the wild felines—with his kin. And the differencebetween those and the house cat is the amount of culture thatthe cat has absorbed from domesticity with human beings.A wild cat, for instance, will not submit to caressing; it hasno sense of gratitude. Due to its association with man, how-ever, the cat can appreciate kindness and cruelty; it is grate-ful for comfort. But that is only culture, not innateintelligence. So it is with the cow. For a true perspectiveof its intelligence one must compare it with the Europeanbuffalo, a savage animal that never has been domesticated.The gentleness of the cow represents the amountof culture gained from association with man. And thehorse. There is nothing extant to which it can be compared.Descended from the proto-hippus, which passed through five
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Contrary to popular belief, dogs and horses and cats andelephants are far down the scale in animal intelligence. 309 310 THE FORUM horizons of life until in its present type, the horse has theprehistoric remnant of one toe instead of the five toes of theoriginal animal which was no larger than a fox. The horsesintelligence is but a veneer. When he runs away and joins wild horses, he at once shakes off the culture acquired fromman, reverts to his innate wildness, and to this adds savage-ness and bad habits picked up when abused by man. So isthe intelligence of chickens acquired in domesticity; it is thesame indeed with all the domestic animals many of whomseem so humanlike. In the jungle are animals that neverhad the opportunity of cultural association with man, yetfor all that are utterly superior to the humanlike domesticanimals with which we are all so familiar. It is a general truth that animal vegetarians, like thehorse and the elephant, are on a lower plane of intelligencethan me

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