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remember. The buu fell just at the angle, and the bear seemed 

 disinclined to enter the water, but stood on the edge of the 

 pond, and commenced stirring the water with its paw, so that 

 it established a sort of rotatory current, which eventually 

 brought the bun within reach. When one leg got tired it used 

 the other, but in the same direction. I watched the whole per- 

 formance wi'oh the greatest interest myself. 



In corroboration of this most remarkable observation 

 I quote the following from Mr. Darwin's ' Descent of Man ' 

 (p. 76), which, is so precisely similar, that the fact of bears 

 reaching the high level of intelligence which the fact 

 implies can scarcely be doubted. ' A well-known ento- 

 mologist,. Mr. Westropp, informs me that he observed in 

 Vienna a bear deliberately making with his paw a current 

 in some water which was close to the bars of his cage, so 

 as to draw a piece of floating bread within his reach.' 



