The Dawn of Reason; or, Mental Traits in the Lower AnimalsWeir, James, Jr.
Science
The Dawn of Reason; or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
Weir, James, Jr.
Psychology, Comparative; Reason
SNAKE, love of young in, 140;
author's experiment in testing parental affection of, 140;
sense of direction and "homing instinct" in, 198;
author's observations of "homing instinct" in, 198.
SOLE, the origin of unilateral eyes in the, 9.
SONG-SPARROW, memory of individuals in, 77;
parental affection in, 143.
SPANIEL, a laughing, 89.
SPIDER, memory in, 72;
recognition of individuals by, 73;
love of music in the, 108;
author's experiments with piano on, 108;
author's experiments with pipe organ on, 109;
Reclain's observations on the love of music in, 109;
decorative instinct present in, 110;
peculiar web spun by, 110;
parental affection in, 135;
author's experiment in testing parental love of, 135;
use of implement (pebble anchor) by, 222.
SQUIRREL, memory in the, 70.
STENTOR POLYMORPHUS, nervous system of, 46;
observations of and experiments with, 47;
conscious determination in, 47;
ganglia of, 47.
STRONGALOGNATHUS, degeneration caused by the habit of slave-making in,
155, 156, 157.
T
TABANUS ATRATUS, balancers of, 33;
loss of equilibrium in, 33;
anatomy of balancers of, 34;
auditory hairs of, 34.
TERMES, kinds of individuals in a colony of, 161;
number of eggs laid by queen of, 162;
size of gravid queen, 162;
New Mexican, 163;
soldiers and workers of, 163;
instincts and reasoning powers of, 164.
TERRIER, love of music in, 113;
musical discrimination in, 113;
abstract ideation in, 216.
TINCTUMUTATION, definition of, 182;
location of color-changing sense centre in, 183.
TOAD, memory in the, 87;
a performing, 87;
parental affection in the Surinam, 140.
TRITICUM REPENS, sick dogs medicate themselves with, 220.
TURKEY, memory of individuals in the, 76;
recognition of property rights by the, 221.
V
VANESSA, tinctumutation in the larva of, 192.
VIPER, death-feigning in the, 207.
VOLITION, definition of conscious, 39;
physiological aspect of, 40.
W
WASP, memory in the, 62;
author's experiments in testing memory in the, 63, 69;
memory of kindred in the, 65, 69;
memory of locality and of events in the, 85;
knowledge derived from a single experience by a, 85;
length of life in the mud-dauber, 138;
evidence of reason in the mud-dauber, 149, 150;
psychic actualities of easy acquirement in the ant, the bee, and
the, 151;
faculty of computing in the mason, 169;
author's experiments in testing the computing faculty in the, 170;
method of preparing food for the male and female grubs used by the
mason, 170.
WATER-LOUSE, sense of direction in the, 194.
WREN, distress and grief evinced by, 93;
recognition of individuals by, 93;
gratitude shown by, 94.
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ECONOMICS.
BY
EDWARD THOMAS DEVINE, Ph.D.,
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