The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-12
ODD TRAITS OF ANIMALS
MANY PEcULIARTTIEs DIS
 COVERED IN THEIR STUDY.
Beasts That Cry and Shed Real Tears, Others Nope and Pine Over Love Affairs-one Spits
 Contemptuously.

Versailles Special to Chicago Record
 Herald.
 What may be called the one and onl, university of animals is situated in thi, proud old town, some twelve miles from Paris. This Is the Institute of Zoolosica Psychology. and the work of it's foun der. M. P. Hachet-soupiet. and his staf consists in studying the intelligence ant morality of beasts.
 The institute gives every beast faiI chance. It has no prejudices. Thus. on, of its first triumphs was to relieve tn, South American llama of the unjust crit icism that has weighed on the gentle creature since the discovery of his lant by the Spaniards some 400 years ago. The particular llama that submitted itself te the study of the institute did not know the object of its visit. Being brough, to Versailles in a horse-ambuIance from the Jardin d'Acclimation without notice 1t displayed at once the unfortunate characteristic to which it owes Its bad name. It spat in the face of M. P. Ha- chet-souplet.
 The Llama is Impolite.
 There is no denying that the llama splits. For this reason Parisian nurse- maids nameSit the saucy llama. Peram. bulating their young charges through the Zoo they resort to 1t at need as an awful example; because when the Paris child is naughty. shows his or her tongue makes mouth. and splits, nurse cries with an air of pained surprise: ''Tiens tiens! this child is like the saucy llama Come. M. Georges. or Mme. Suzanne. lei us see the beast you so resemble!'
 It is sufficient to bring any Paris child to order: to be likened to "bete" oi beast is awful. When nurse pokes the unsuspecting llama with her parasol first in fright. then in anger. 1t splits. Nurse is. however. wrong when she at tributes the unlovely gesture to like unloveiy character. With her the world has been wrong about the llama. M Hachet-Souplet has proved that the llama to defend itself. It has no other weapon and its splitting is sufficient. Splitting 1t defends its enemies. The unique act scares all other animals.
 A Fish That Spits.
 There is no other animal that spits!'' I said to the member of the institute who showed me around. "The cat does moi count. because ner splitting is an acci- dental accompaniment of her hissing and snarling, is 1t not? She does not take aim. like the llama"
 "Only one other creature spits frankly, with deliberate purpose, was the answer This is the splitting fish. or toxote. of the rivers of the Malay archipelago. This toxote. though a plain fish. living entirely in the water. makes its sole food of small winged insects. Rising to the surface of the river. 1t perceives its game reposing on a leaf of plant overhang' ing the water. This first inventor of the
 
 pokes its head out of the stream. Il takes aim. Thsn. forcibiy contracting its mouth, 1t squirts a thread of water, often fifteen inches long. which overwhelms the insect and brings it down like squirrel with load of shot in his skin!
 "The curious thing is that the toxote SC seldom misses his mark" concluded my informant. "The Dutch of Java careful ly preserve these fish in small aquariums and encourage them to practice long distance shots by placing tempting game always a little further from them. Thui there are sports of Batavia who will bet $500 on the range and accuracy of theii pet toxote, and toxote matches form one of the distrac ions of the capital"
 Of High Intelligence.
 "As to the ilama.' I said, he has one trait that shows him in a less innocen, light. Last summer an acquaintance of mine used to tease one of the alpacas at the Jardln Discrimination, and the animal certainly took a dislike to him One afternoon. as we stood in front of the inclosure talking, this particular llama without provocation, spit square in my friends ear"
 That revengefuI disposition is a proof of high intelligence" answered the mem- Der of the Institute of Geological Psy- chology. When vengeance Is legitimate, 1t implies rude sense of justice. In this sense the elephant is the most highly endowed of all beasts; and geological psychology has numberless cases of ele- phant revenge. The dog is revengeful, as he is grateful. But the most curious case we have observed Is that of a wild boar. When first brought to the institute this boar was agltated and dangerous, and gave trouble to our keepers. One of these. named Jacques. took the habit of swatting the poor beast with his stick when 1t came his turn to feed him. Later the boar became tame. so that men could walk freely in his inclosure. One day, when he had brought the boars food, this Jacques stepped into the inclosure. With a squeal that was almost a laugh, the boar charged Jacques with his tusks. rip- ped his pants to ribbons and plowed great furrows in his legs! Then for hours after the boar would look at the other keepers knowingly and grin!"
 Beasts That Weep.
 "The hyena laughs.' I said. and the crocodile Is said to shed tears"
 There are beasts that really weep and sob when in pain or fear" answered the animal -phychologist. "The hunted stag weeps bitterly when at his last efforts to escape the dogs; so also the red deer. concerning one of which the poet Lamar tine has a touching passage. He had wounded it. Tt looked to me with great eyes dropping tears. l shall never forget that look. in which astonishment, pain and the apprehension of death gave depths of human sentiment as lntelligible as worlds Both the elephant and the bear weep when wounded, and the dog is d great howler with no lack of tears; but for steady mourning the seal and the tapir take the prize.
 Tine tapir We observed here at the in- stitute. and a more inoffensive creature never lived. In their own country. India, they go out only at night. marching to the river in single file, as, grave as philo- sophers swinging their short trunks con tinually to sniff danger. The females have an exaggerated care of their young. continually pokinE them about. pulling them back. and forcing the poor little ones to walk just so. two steps in front of them. for all the world like fussy