Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1920 — HAVE THEIR OWN LANGUAGE [ARTICLE]

HAVE THEIR OWN LANGUAGE

1 No Doubt at All That Bird* and Beasts Hold Communication With Each Other. - . ■ w That phrase, “dumb animals,” betrays more Ignorance of the life around/* us .than any other ever invented by our race, for, though no species save man has an articulate language, no one who has watched and attended to the ways of birds and beasts can doubt that they very thoroughly manage to convey to each other their wishes .and 1 Intentions. Each, in its own way, communicates with Ite fellows, and if the * language Is not oar language It at any i rate serves their purpose exceedingly j well. Certainly the amount of Individ- { uality that there is among the different , specimens of the same species can only | be realised by those who have had ■ much to do with wild creatures. No - one mammal or bird Is ever In character and behavior the exact duplicate of the next; each differs in some way from its neighbor, so you can never depend on any two animals doing exactly the same thing under the same circumstances —in fact, we find that Individuality reigns as supreme throughout Nature as it does throughout man, but then, after all, man is a part of Nature. —Frances Pitt In the National Review (Hngland.)