The Dawn of Reason; or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals

The feigning of death by certain animals for the purpose of deceiving their enemies, and thus securing immunity, is one of the greatest of the many evidences of intelligent acti...

The simplest and truest definition of reason is, I take it, the intelligent correlation of ideation and action for definite purposes not instinctive. The casual observer and a v...

I am inclined to believe that the primal, fundamental sense,--the sense of touch,--from which all the other senses have been evolved or developed, has been in existence almost a...

In discussing memory as it is to be observed in the lower animals, I think it best to divide the subject into four parts; viz., _Memory of Locality_ (_Surroundings_), _Memory of...

"The man that hath not music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils." The above quotation is the thought of one o...

When we come to examine the methods by which, or through which, many of the lower animals protect themselves from their enemies, we soon discover that some of these means are ve...

Conscious determination, or, effort induced by conscious volition, is the basic mental operation upon which is reared that complex psychical structure which is to be found in th...

Careful observation and investigation lead me to believe that, in many of the higher animals, all the fundamental emotions, such as love, hate, fear, anger, jealousy, etc., are...

It has been claimed that one of the main objections to the doctrine of kinship, which, undoubtedly, exists between all animals, is the wide difference that is to be noted betwee...

Not confined to any family, order, or species of animals--Death-feigning by rhizopods--By fresh-water annelids--By the larvæ of butterflies and beetles--By free-swimming rotifer...

Definition of reason--Origin of instincts--Instances of intelligent ratiocination--In the bee--The wasp--The ant--Mental degeneration in ants occasioned by the habit of keeping...

The sense of touch--The senses of taste and smell--Actinophryans having taste--The sense of sight--Modification of sight organs by surroundings --Sight in Actinophryans--Blind f...

The color-changing sense and "homing instinct" so-called--These faculties not instincts but true senses--The chromatic function --Tinctumutation--Chromatophores and their functi...

Discussed under four heads, viz. _Memory of Locality_ (_Surroundings_), _Memory of Friends_ (_Kin_), _Memory of Strangers_ (_Other animals not kin_), and _Memory of Events_ (_Ed...

The higher animals--Laughter--In monkeys--In the dog--In the chimpanzee --In the orang-utan--Fear, dismay, consternation, grief, fortitude, joy shown by bees--Affection for the...

The love of music--In spiders--In quail--In dogs--Origin of love of music in the dog--Dog's knowledge of the echo--Love of music in rats --In mice--Singing mice--Love of music i...

Definition--How conscious determination is evolved from the senses--The presence of nerve-tissue in _Stentor polymorphus_--The properties of nerve-tissue--Romanes' experiment wi...

Origin of parental feeling--Evidence of this psychical trait in spiders --In earwigs--In crayfish--In butterflies--In fish--In toads--In snakes--Instance of pride in parents--In...