Capitolo 61
better than that. From common approval, they classifies the group of parrot as the
the a lot of head and crown of the creation of bird. Not, clearly, because beautiful
Survey can speak (in a state of nature, it only repeats to parrot you chat rather
meaninglessly to each other), but because the show of group on the
whole, every round, a greater amount of the intelligence, of the ability and
of the circumstances adaptability that some other birds, included also
their astute competitors and secret, the imperial crows, the jackdaws the
crows and the gossipers.
What is unusually the efficient causes of this the tall intelligence
in parrots? Well, the Mr. Herbert Spencer, I believe, it was the first one to
you point out the intimate connection that exists in the whole animal
world among mental development and the power to understand an object
every round as to precisely know his/her form and his/her tactile ownerships.
The possession of a prehensile and real organ--a hand or his/her
equivalent--it seems to be the first great in demand for the evolution of
a tall order of intellect. Man and the monkeys, have for example a
pair of hands; and in case one them you/he/she can see to a look as employee
it is their intelligence on these avid organs. All the human arts found
them lately on the human hand; and the monkeys also draw near
nearer to humanity in virtue of their never-asset and busy little
fingers. The elephant, has again his/her flexible trunk that, as we have
all felt more and more times, nauseam_ of announcement of _usque, is equally well
adapted to pick up a pin or to break the great branches of tropical
trees of forest. (That pin, is now particularly a worn-out classical.)
The squirrel, once more famous for his/her unusual intelligence when
judged by a standard of rodent, uses his/her enough small hands as true
hands from which he can understand a walnut-tree or you/he/she can bear fruit every round, and so it earns in
his/her small mind a clear conception of his/her true form and ownership.
In the whole animal kingdom generally, indeed, this correspondence,