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Animal Intelligence 



TABLE 6 (c) 



Another corroborative, though not very valuable, experi- 

 ment was the following : Dog 3 had been taught for the pur- 

 pose of another experiment to jump up on a box and beg 

 when I held a piece of meat above the box. I then caused 

 him to do this no times (within two days) in the presence of 

 i. Although i saw him at least 20 per cent of the times (3 

 was always fed each time he jumped on the box), he never 

 tried to imitate him. 



It seems sure from these experiments that the animals 

 were unable to form an association leading to an act from 

 having seen the other animal, or animals, perform the act in 

 a certain situation. Thus we have further restricted the 

 association process. Not only do animals not have asso- 

 ciations accompanied, more or less permeated and altered, 

 by inference and judgment ; they do not have associations 

 of the sort which may be acquired from other animals by 

 imitation. What this implies concerning the actual mental 



