#dohong

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An orang-utan named Dohong, which was brought to the New York zoo from Borneo some years ago, astonished us by his intelligence, W. Reid Blair writes in the American Magazine. A gas pipe four feet long and two inches in diameter was wired to the bar at the front of his cage. The pipe itself could not be tilted or moved. Inside this pipe— in the very middle— a piece of banana was placed. Dohong, who was very fond of bananas, tried to get it. First he attempted to get it with his hands, then his feet, and failed. He tried to loosen the pipe, but he couldn't do that. He was very much disturbed over his inability to get at that banana, and sat down to think it over. But no happy solution came to him— for the simple reason that, under the circumstances, there wasn't any. Finally, without Dohong's knowledge, a stick two feet long with a hook in the end of it was concealed is the straw of his cage. Then Dohong was put back in the cage and we waited. In the course of 15 minutes Dohong accidentally came across the hooked stick. It didn't mean anything to him on the instant, but presently he was struck by a bright idea. He inserted the hooked end of the stick into the pipe, and, lo! out came the banana on the hook! After that, when a banana was put inside the pipe, Dohong wasted no time trying to reach it with his hands, but began looking at once for the hooked stick. This seemed to me to indicate a high order of intelligence.

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