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[Aldred Tritt]

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the nest before dropping it on the ground. Now, as far as I could tell,
the eggs were alike,
but the sharper and more discriminating eyes of the turkey
undoubtedly saw, on close examination, some peculiarity in color or
shape in the stranger's egg, and therefore bore it away and destroyed
it. I believe, however, that
her attention was arrested at first by the unexpected number of eggs in
the nest, and that she was enabled to detect the stranger's egg only
after much inspection and comparison. Many animals have
been taught to count, but none of them show that they fully
appreciate the value of numerical rotation. Of course, in the vast
majority of trained animals, the seeming appreciation is only a trick
founded on the sense of smell, sight, touch, or taste. An instance
recently came under my personal o
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