He will never return to us." Mukoki made a soft sound deep down in his throat, and Rod turned suddenly toward him.
"You believe that, Mukoki ?" "Wolf gone!" "But animals think, don't they ?" persisted Rod, to whom the discussion was of absorbing interest.

"They reason, they remember!" "They do all of that," replied Wabi, "and more.

I have read certain so-called natural history stories which ridiculed the idea of wild animals possessing mental abilities, and which ascribed pretty nearly all their actions to instinct.

Such stories are as wrong as those which give wild animals human endowments.

Animals do think.