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Animal Intelligence

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THE following notes of facts observed in New Zealand may be thought of interest; in some way they may serve to illustrate Mr. Romanes' work on “Animal Intelligence”: they are submitted without making an attempt to distinguish where they may overlap the fine line between instinct and intelligence. Cases which may show apparent intelligence or the reverse are recorded that we may arrive at a clearer view of the truth in animal life.

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  1. See Mittheilungen des Ornithologischen Vereines in Wien No. 3, Marz 1884, p. 35.

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POTTS, T. Animal Intelligence. Nature 30, 265–267 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030265a0

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