CREATION BY EVOLUTION
on account of the master's disfavor is well illustrated by the following story told by Köhler:
"When I had been in Tenerife a few weeks only, I noticed, whilst feeding the squatting animals, pressed up close to me, that a little female, at other times quite well-behaved, was snatching the food out of the hand of a weaker animal, and as she persisted in this, I gave her a little rap. The little creature, which I had punished for the first time, shrank back, uttered one or two heart-broken wails, as she stared at me horror-struck, while her lips were pouted more than ever. The next moment she had thrown her arms round my neck, quite beside herself, and was only comforted by degrees, when I stroked her. This need, here expressed, for forgiveness, is a phenomenon frequently to be observed in the emotional life of chimpanzees. Even animals who at first when they have been punished, boil with rage, throw one glances full of hate, and will not take a mouthful of food from a human being, when one comes again after a time, will press up close, with eager bearing, to which a quick rhythmic breathing and pulling open of the eyes is added; or else will give a sob of relief, press one's fingers affectionately to their lips and make other apish protests of friendship."
It appears evident that the little ape was concerned, not so much over her punishment, as over the fact that her master could bring himself to punish her at all. Like an affectionate and sensitive child, she felt keenly the estrangement which the punishment implied, and was satisfied only when cordial relations were again established.
A lack of space forbids a description of the many little ways in which the behavior of the higher apes resembles that of human beings. I can only mention their approach to dancing, their modes of beckoning to their comrades and of conveying by movements their meaning as to what they
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