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Animal Intelligence

Nature volume 66, page 459 (1902)Cite this article

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ALTHOUGH the terms “ass” and, at any rate in Germany, “ox” (Ochs) are very generally applied to stupid persons, those who have observed the bovine and asinine genera know that this is an injustice to those animals; and the following instances of particular intelligence displayed by two of the thus maligned beasts seem worth recording.

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  1. Alderwasley, Matlock, Derbyshire

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HURT, L. Animal Intelligence. Nature 66, 459 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/066459b0

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