Ernest Menault (1830, Angerville -1903) was a French

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. Menault wrote, principally ''Les Insectes nuisibles à l' Agriculture et à la Viticulture'', ''L’intelligence des animaux'' (The Intelligence of Animals) and ''L’amour maternel chez les animaux''. A review in the ''

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'' journal for his book ''The Intelligence of Animals'', noted that "we have not been led to form a very high opinion of his physiology or of his general philosophy; but he has compiled a most entertaining volume, crammed with most amusing stories about all kinds of animals, from ants to ourang-outangs."

Selected publications

''Les Insectes nuisibles à l' Agriculture et à la Viticulture''
(1866)
''The Intelligence of Animals''
(1872)

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In French * {{DEFAULTSORT:Menault, Ernest 1830 births 1903 deaths Animal cognition writers French entomologists French zoologists