The Dawn of Reason; or, Mental Traits in the Lower AnimalsWeir, James, Jr.
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The Dawn of Reason; or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
Weir, James, Jr.
Psychology, Comparative; Reason
HONEY BEE, recognition of impending calamity by, 90;
consternation and dismay manifested by, 90;
remarkable engineering feat by, 91;
joy evinced by, 91;
grief shown by, 91, 92;
Huber's experiment demonstrating reason in, 178.
HORSE, love of offspring in the, 143;
seeking man's aid when in trouble, 144;
self-medication by, 220.
HOUND, death-feigning by, 212.
HUMMING-BIRD, decorative instinct in, 128.
HYDRA, water-louse feeding on the buds of, 52.
HYDROZOA, nerve-tissue in, 41.
HYMENOPTERA, recognition of kindred in social, 69.
I
ICHNEUMON, method of ovipositing in the bodies of caterpillars used
by, 104.
INSTINCT, definition of, 147, 148.
J
JAY, parental love in the, 142;
battle between cat and, 143.
JELLY-FISH, anatomy, physiology, and psychology of, 4;
nerve-ring in nectocalyx of, 5;
"eyes" of, 5;
manubrium or "handle" of, 5;
sensitiveness of nervous system in, 5;
pulsing of nectocalyx in, 5;
intoxicated, 15;
light sought by, 15;
effect of the excision of the marginal bodies of, 52;
conscious determination in, 52;
effect of alcohol on, 219.
K
KATYDID, color-changing function in, 191, 192.
L
LAND TERRAPIN, memory of locality in, 65;
homing sense in, 65;
author's experiments with, 65.
LASIUS FLAVUS, author's experiments with, 67;
slow in recognizing kin, 67;
ants of the same species disinter buried, 101.
LASIUS NIGER, memory of kindred in, 66.
LEPIDOPTERA, organs of hearing in, 35.
LETISIMULATION, definition of, 202;
origin of, 206.
LIMPET, homing sense in, 194;
Romanes on the homing sense in, 195.
LIOTHE, fowls cleaned by, 129.
LIZARD, Ada Sterling's account of Kate Field's music-loving, 119;
fondness for music in the tree, 119;
Chilhowie "singing," 120;
author's experiment with the piccolo on, 120.
LOBSTER, love of offspring in the, 137;
battle between monkey and gravid, 137.
LOCUST, love of cleanliness in, 130;
diamond mistaken for dewdrop by, 131;
carnivorous tastes in the, 131;
description of the toilet of a, 132.
LYCOSA, love of music in, 108;
tameness of, 110.
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MAMMOTH CAVE, eyeless spider of, 11;
eyeless fish of, 11;
homing sense in the beetles of, 196.
MANDRIL, a revengeful, 95.
MEDUSA, intoxicated, 15.
MELANOPLUS, reënforcing auditory ganglia of, 32.
MEMORY, its discussion under four heads, 60.
MIMOSA PUDICA, death-feigning by, 208.
MIMOSA STRIGILOSA, death-feigning by, 208.
MIND, definition of, 1.
MOLE, degeneration of sight organs in, 10.
MONERON, non-differentiation of nerve-cells in, 3;
nervoid elements in, 3.
MONKEY, author chosen as a friend by, 82;
a laughing, 89;
sorrow and reproach manifested by, 97;
faculty of computing in the, 177;
use of hammer by a, 222.
MORPHOLOGY, its correlation with physiology, 2.
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