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
MOUSE, love of music in, 116;
musical discrimination in, 117;
Quigley's observations, 117;
Benedick's experiments with, 117;
author's observations and analysis of the song of "singing," 118;
Ada Sterling's observations of music-loving, 118, 119.
MULE, idea of time evinced by a, 175, 176.
MYRIANIDA, eyes of, 17;
reproduction in, 18.
MYRMECA RUGINODIS, memory of friends (kindred) in, 68;
experiments with, 68.
MYRMECOCYSTUS, the honey-making, 157;
natural history of, 158;
author's experiments in testing the reasoning powers of, 158, 159;
division of labor in a colony of, 161.
N
NECTOCALYX, marginal bodies in jelly-fish's, 51.
NERVE, transmission of impressions through, 41;
the power of discrimination in, 41;
the association of ideas (impressions) in, 43;
memory in, 43.
NEWT, tinctumutation in, 186;
author's experiments with, 186.
O
OEQUOREA, eyes of, 15.
OESTRUS EQUI, selection of foreleg of horse for oviposition by, 103.
ONCHIDIUM, cephalic eyes of, 26;
dorsal eyes of, 26.
OPOSSUM, letisimulation in the, 202, 212.
ORANG-UTAN, laughter in the, 89;
use of missiles by, 222.
OX, homing sense in the, 199, 200.
OYSTER, eyes of, 16.
P
PAPILIONINÆ, length of life in tropical, 137.
PERCH, love of offspring in the white, 138.
PERIOPHTHALMUS, habitat of, 25;
peculiar mode of life of, 25;
eyes of, 25;
food of, 26.
PIGEON, love of music in the, 122;
Lockman's account of a music-loving, 122;
musical discrimination in, 122.
PIPE-FISH, parental affection in the, 139;
Risso's observations, 139.
PLAICE, the origin of unilateral eyes in the, 9;
absence of color-changing faculty in blind, 188;
Pouchet's demonstration of the color-changing function of the
sympathetic nerves in, 189.
PODURA, _F. fusca_ and _F. rufescens_ make pets of, 126;
author's observations of, 126.
POLYERGUS, lowering tendency of slavery shown by, 155, 156.
PRIONUS, author's experiments in locating organs of hearing in, 36.
Q
QUAIL, domesticated, 111;
love of caresses in, 111;
love of instrumental music in, 111;
fondness for the singing voice in, 112.
R
RAT, fondness for instrumental music in, 116;
power of musical discrimination in, 116.
REASON, definition of, 147;
difference between instinct and, 148.
RHIZOPOD, sense of direction in, 48;
Carter's observations of, 49;
memory in, 60.
ROBIN, homing sense in, 199.
S
SAND-WASP, memory of locality in, 62;
author's experiments with, 63.
SARCOPTES HOMINIS, death-feigning in, 209.
SATIN BIRD, æstheticism in the male, 128;
author's observations of, 128.
SEA-URCHIN, eyes of, 16.
SNAIL, eyes of, 19;
visual powers of, 19;
courtship of, 20;
location of sense of direction in, 194;
author's experiments with, 194;
author's experiments in demonstrating homing sense in the, 194.
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