Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-03-25
Animal Psychology.

PsYchology has plant Oh iaiw !"
the peighborhood Of Paris. The e1-
act location, the New York Suns cor
respondent says. is kept secret, to
avoid hinderance to the work by the
crowds OF merely curious visitors
The property includes meadows and
barn-ysrds, a wood of considerable
size, and large pond stocked with
fish. There are spacious buildings,
including modern stables, riding
school, stalls for isolating animals
under special observation. an aqua
mum and laboratory. On the roof
of the main building is dove cote.
Low far the desire to study the
hablls oil living creatures under nat
ural conditions may be carried is Illus
trated IN the fact that diving appa
ratus has been provided in when OBJ
servers descend to the bottom of the
pond. Tuere they remain tor hours
until the FISH become accustomed to
their presence. aud follow their nat
ural impulses of PLAYING and feed
iug. the student ls thus enabled to
note their habits at Fl st hand.
The other extreme of observation
70 the con tIucuon OF sheltered plat.
loi M In the branches of trees, where
slth AL electric htshlght the watchy
the doiugs OF owls, bats and nocturnal
Insects Que OF the conclusions
reached by the students of the instl-
tute is that some anluals possess
-pscial sense by which they can de
trct the presence Of water even though
they canuot see it. The experiments
we're undertaken at the suggestion OF
David Allen, a resident of Australia
and a corresponding member, who
wrote TO the institute OF his expert
epces with sheep and cattle while be-
ing driven across the country. In
he places where water was wholly un
,xpected, be says, "the leading AMI
mails would suddenly lift their heads
and draw long bresths. Then they
would abandon beaten tracks and
start running through the brush
Sometimes they would run mile and
q half OF wo miles, and could not be
stopped by their drivers, their course
Invariably leading to pond or apring
hitherto unknown.
Tue experiment WAS made on a
sater-Iat. First It's eyes were blind
ed by a bandage, and then it was
placed in a turntable. which wac
shirled round until all sense Of di-
rection must hs,e been oblitersted.
Upon being released, without a
moments hesitation it started directly
for a pond, several hundred yards
distant.
Frogs and toads were taken to
distance Of three or four miles from
water and turned loose. seemed to
trke them only few seconds to 10
cate water. One old blind toad
seemed to show the instinct in the
same degree as the others.
The nature Of the source of this is
not yet clearly discerned, The OBJ
s-rvers have named it the sense OF
humidity. They believe it consists in
perception Of the direction in which
he atmosphere contains the mosr
moisture An effort will be mad, to
discover whether any men possess it.
Among the subjects of investiga-
ton is the Sigh Of birds and the
boming instinct Of the carrier pigeon
Nanv OF the members of the Institute
are inclined to consider this as a phe-
n meuon of far eight. They have
ben t,k'ng, by trispgulatioD, the
light TO which birds soar, and from
haf figuring out the radius of vision
they attain. A bird that reaches the
hight Of eight hundred yard can Sc
OH cts more than sixty miles distant
and that they are keen sighted enough
to recognize them cannot be doubted
At three miles yulture can decry
the carcass of KID hung On pole.