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Intelligence in Animals

Nature volume 28, page 31 (1883)Cite this article

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IN addition to the long list of “emotions which resemble human intelligence as occurring in animals below the human species,” as given by your correspondent on the authority of Dr. Romanes (NATURE, vol. xxvii. p. 580), and the instance of “benevolence” subsequently cited, I venture to submit the following as illustrating something very like the emotion of contempt.

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