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Teaching Animals to Converse

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YOU did me the honour some weeks ago (January 3, p. 216) to insert a letter of mine, containing suggestions as to a method of studying the psychology of animals, and a short account of a beginning I had myself made in that direction.

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LUBBOCK, J. Teaching Animals to Converse. Nature 29, 547–548 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029547c0

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