New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1930, Page 12

- Experiments to Test Brains of Animals and How They / Would Have Reacted to \ N A 70 e—y R AR TR 1 IO OO NI IR Bewildered Anger Is Displayed by the Sacred Baboon Upon( Being Confronted by the Strange Object Before It. The Baboon, in Fact, Gocs Mad Over Any- thing It Cannot Under- stand. e MR, IR0 This Strikinz Animal Portrait, y } Executed Entirely by Nature, N N Was Revealed When a Maple { §§ N Iree at Madison, Wis., Was N Sawed Down. The Section N §.§ NN from Which This Picture Was A . faken Is Now on Display in the g\':\“_ U. S. Forest Service Carpenter N s\? Shop at Madison. It Is Entirely the Result of Natural Discoloration of the Wood. The High-Light in the “Eye” Was Produced by Reflec- tion from the Photographer's Arc Light. 7 The (Raulemake May Be Laughing, but It Always Must Be Remembered That Its Humor Has a Terrible Sting to It. With Such a Cavernous Mouth, It I~ Difficult to Tell Whether the Hippopotamus Is Laughing, Crring ' or Is Simply Wistful About the Strange Wooden Animal to Its Right. 5 R nted on various o s P this page and revea! animals react to mos! how they probably wo d themselves if Ha! Ha! Ha! And the Crocodile Lets Out a Cynical Laugh Upon Viewing the Bewildering Object Before It. The Crocodile’s Laughter, Like Its Tears, Is Not g ely Genuine, So It May Be That It Is Just as Mad as the Baboon. This Particular Crocodile, Incidentally, Is 400 Years Old. is an photograph of a striking animal por- trait, executed entirely by Nature. It was found tree by stand ‘. o LI TSI B 99 NN g You e heard of erocod but tt also suc in crocodile laugh. its tea someth 1 the have some N world and it doesn’t take tob upon them. You may is en- imagination to detect a sneer on s them from X sult of nat- face when it ms to be laugh this is not loration of Just as the baboon goes into a r E around a at its own hewilderment so does < connection a strange and crocodile a a cynical laugh. To high-light i affect a laugh at something it doesn't ve, produced by understand is not, however, a subter- reflections from the fuge resorted to only in the animal hotographer’s a r ¢ kingdom. ° of the ‘‘tee mple of the effect of N onment upon a dumb \ was recounted by Paul Eipper, famous German journalist and ologist, who wrote in his book, “Ani- & ight If it resembles When a hippopota opens its mals Looking at You,” this story: anything it* is goat mouth wide it i “In the Polar panorama of the and certainly deserves Whether it is laughing ying Hellabunn Zoo I saw the tragedy of its place among the merely hung Dr. k a bear—pitiful and inevitable—that freaks, ever, says the hippo be ended in its death. The beast had Now suppose the amused at unfamiliar obj been brought from a traveling menag- Racredi8batiobniiwh much more good- erie, where for years it had been con- pears when it e i in a narrow cage. ippo prefers to live a quiet life, but “Now it was given freedom. Bu when something out of S i S R AR s S pops up, it becomes amused. and crags, swim and bathe and dive ake there can be to the heart’s content, even here it 1 It reacts to ever; could still see the confining prison freak in the center. thing in the same way, and that is w bars. was it put into the What would it have Vvenom. The snake pictured on thi spacious enclosure than it sought out done — if anything? Page has its mouth wide open, but you a flat plateau, and day by day and The likelihood is, ac. May be sure it isn’t laughing. Or, if week by week the whole Winter cording to Dr. Stein- it has a or humor, it is humor through, and into the first weeks of brink, it would have With a terrific sting to it. pring, it shambled its six paces for- uddenly fero- Now we get down to the dog. The rd and seven paces backward. Y t as you see particular dog shown on this page is a “Was its food thrown in another Portrait on page. The bloodhound. It appears to be yawn- place down below on the-lakeside or the Piece of baboon is inclined to ing. But you must remember that this above among the rocks, it was left Wood MayBe be a frolicsome ani- bloodhound is stomed to hot, swift, lying there untouched. The wide world hardly charming fea- tures are reproduced in the upper right-hand corner of this page, 1 should have suddenly As to the rattl some across the strange but one conclusior 200 and made He “black bar through mpanzee with Interesting mal but it easily goes exciting pursuit. A piece of wood, no freedom f i and All That, but What info a rage :h):: gmo- no ma::er how u zrua? it may be, prisoner.” o of It? Thus, the ment it encounters merely a “ho-hum” matter with th To determine what factors control | R c Gloodhound, Interested something beyond its dog. - the minds of animals, science is under- ‘ P enly. knockad S in Active Pursuits, comprehension. In Thus it may be seen that the reac- taking strange experiments, So even ‘ \W§§ srink’s hand. 'T it went back to Yawns With other {vords, it hates tions of animals have some significance, your pet poodle or Angora cat may | H srnér and relaxed. The lion watched Boredom. what 1t cannot under- especially if we apply a little imagina- find itself cho-analyzed soon. Kexsgazer Feature Service, 1930, N N N S ) \ g s