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IN NATURE, vol. xx. p. 147, Mr. H. D. Barclay writes:—“The fact that a cat or a dog subject their food to examination before eating it, does not, most assuredly, prove the possession of abstract powers of thought in the animal. Mr. Romanes here says:—‘The motive of the examination being to ascertain which general idea of quality is appropriate to the particular object examined.’
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ROMANES, G. Intellect in Brutes. Nature 20, 196 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020196a0
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