Intellect in Brutes

Abstract

THE Duke of Argyll in his “Reign of Law” was, I think, the first who promulgated the dictum that man is the only tool-making animal. As far as I can ascertain, this assertion is admitted by developmentists, yet it is undoubtedly true that the Indian elephant makes two implements, or forms and alters certain things so as to adapt them specially to fulfil definite purposes, for which, unaltered, they would not be suitable.