Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1870 — The Memory of Animals. [ARTICLE]

The Memory of Animals.

«airaalt,tkerefcr«noy proefc. Bew,*e j yit|>i> Bober, who had been fed In p4r^ 1 u ' ar I In .resume uenoe. A bore* %U 1 alreort Alvars be found to prftmrre abAco* recollection of enj spot where be i-m reoeiwd e fright, hoverer miny y««n may hare since elapsed. We cennot Jett now call tbmlnd where mZmSSL ooS,dlng Indian regiment. He wea an exceedingly large.end henry man and the boree, having a dlaiike to entry Mich a burden, acquired the habit of lying down on the grodnd whenever the colonel prepared to mount. This, as may be supposed, an noyed him, and, to avoid the ridicule of the soldiers, he parted with the animal, and procured another not so fastidious as to a Few stones nonce or lets. We believe It was a year or two—oertahtly some con siderable time—after that the colonel, vising another station, was invited to review the twope there, and a hone wen placed at hianerviee, which, on his attempting to mount, immediately lay down in roll view of the assembled regiment It turned Oat to be the identical dismissed charger, who had at onoe recognised his former objectionable owner. •A very interesting anecdote is related by Fretforic* Cuvier, ahowthg* not only great ptw* of memory, but also strong attachment in an animal generally supposed JO he destitute of ill good qnalities—thewolL A genflerntn had trained up one from infancy till he was aa tractable as a dog, would follow him about whenever allowed, and become quite lowspirited when he was absent. Being compelled to leave home, his mast er made him over to the Menagerie da Red, where he at first drooped and refused to eat, but gradually became more reconciled to the situation. After (he lapse of a year and a half .his master returned home and paid him a visit. The wolf knew his voice the moment he spoke, and flew to him with every demonstration of delight and affeotion, planting his fore-feet on his shoulders and lying his face. The same scene occurred after a second separation of three years’duration, the wolf, as before, at once recognizing his master’s voice, and bound-. ingtwwi txahim assoonsasfet at liberty by the keeper. A final parting followed, and from that time the faithful creature never appeared to regain his former spirit s and equable temper, occasionally indeed betraying ominous signs of the ferocity inherent in his race •

Stories of elephantine intelligence are numosoas, bfct most of them too well known towpea*. One, however, recorded by in a paper contributed to a scientific Journal, and which'is vouched for from personal knowledge, is worth a brief notice. The anther was on s Jtfeirney, and severe! elephants were engaged to carry his tutt and baggage. One of them, eupltfniaosly jmmefl %Pattr» Minigal, cominMonjihe >e®t -of a tiger, was seized witliVptiliir and rim ms into the woods, the driver saving himseli by clinging to the branch of a tree and letting himself dowu. All attempts to recover, the aftaal Wfre fruitless, and j the party; proceeded on their way, giving up all idea of again. Among a herd of wild eiepU|nß fqtmpped tigliFeamtfntha al* ter wards was found the runaway r who at first wasug uproarious and unsoanafeablo as thUMtg butt Upon an hid hunter who knew him well riding up to him on a ately obeyed the familiar word of commandfepA became perfectly tractable, This writeHiif taffntfona a* female elephant' Which escaped from her owner and was at and instantly lay down-at his order.

LoAa Adduces the I esrniqg of tiuea ns ■ proof bKttt "blrfs afe gifted with memory. “ It can not,” he any appearance of reason be supposed—much less proved - that btffli, *v|thf>U| 'raise and memory, can apjtfoadkahnr-netto nearer and nmr to a tune pjayed yeaterdam wjnchje ifstljefr, hgve jpf it in their memory. is nowhere, nor can be a pattern for them tifitotTSte, or which any repeated epastyscau tppjg them nearer to. B(npe there is no reason why the ■oundtori spe should- leave traces In 3£ ,t like eaHpdß;,-and why the sounds they make* tHemsatres should not make traces Thase*is no question that many animals underjand the mttftntanent of, time. It is a well-known faqt that, on lands where the oWWfare babittsiyfchot ,tbe instead us keeping ata respect nal distance, as on4IMK9 of tlfqjveek; crane close up to the farm-houses on Sundays, having somehow found out that the guns are then shelved. Every one wkc has traveled much in Scotland, more*efpecialiy fn fee Highland Sandras, The peculiarity is very interest-. ing to EnglWh totMsts, one oP whom states tfuttj&e was. told that many of the dogs vfhreharcre regular attendants ! haif demoralised bra"black sheep”.among their mimber 1 , became so quarrelsome anct SKHis&ss; Jtti'&’S' the habit of bringing their dogs to oonflne them Wlg*'4ouse before foaviog for church.' This plan answered exceedingly well for the first Sunday, but, for the future, hot a single shepherd or termer could find his dag on a Sunday nwrmugj They haa ho notion of hfcing deprived of ill

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