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Animal Intelligence

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HAVING frequently observed in your columns accounts of remarkable instances of reasoning power in animals, I am tempted to send you the following notes, which may perhaps be not without interest to the readers of NATURE.

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    R. J. HARVEY GIBSON

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GIBSON, R. Animal Intelligence. Nature 30, 538 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030538a0

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