Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1920 — HAVE ANIMALS SIXTH SEN [ARTICLE]

HAVE ANIMALS SIXTH SEN

Hard Otherwise to Explain How Wild Beast* Knew That the Great War Was Over. Frightened by the noises of battle the wild beasts at East, Central and West Central Africa went scurrying north and south, traveling sometimes hundreds of miles In their fright and taking refuge In localities entirely new to them. But just as the ruins of northern France have drawn human beings back to them —men and women who dwelt there before the German occupation, home has claimed the wild animals and most of them are now back in their native haunts. How did the wild beast know that the war was over? The elephant, gorilla, giraffe, antelope, buffalo, rhinoceros, lion, leopard and porcupine are certainly all perfectly aware of the fact! o Human beings have their various avenues of sending news, chief among these the newspapers, the post and the telegraph. Whatever the method of communication, the wild animals certainly got the news quickly. ' , ' Peace was no sooner accomplished than the African natives began to see the homeward migration of whole companies of wild beasts through their territories, animals never familiar In these particular communities and obviously passing through. Four years previously they had come crashing through the underbrush, bound in an opposite direction. They were In great haste then and possessed of fear; and pachyderms and carnivora traveled together, the ageold war of the jungle forgotten In a common plight. Birds may become accustomed to the sound of firing, but wild animals loathe It Fear of strange noises is instinctive with them. Animals born in captivity invariably show this instinctive dread. And It is a wellknown fact in zoological parks that apes can be controlled instantly by. the display of a musket, even when as far as is known they have never seen one spit fire.