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A FRIEND in Scotland has a small lake in his grounds, which are surrounded by a high wall. At the bottom of the lake is a sluice by which the water can be let off into a burn below the grounds. A few weeks ago the lady of the house was walking down the road outside the wall towards the burn when, to her astonishment, she met a multitude of frogs making their way up the road, which makes a considerable detour, to the gate leading into the grounds. On inquiry she found that the lake had that morning been emptied through the sluice, and it was plain that these were frogs which, having been carried down with the water to the burn, were now making their way back to their old home. By what instinct did they know that the long road led to the point from which the short one had started?
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S., B. Intelligence in Frogs. Nature 30, 465 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030465b0
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