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Animal Intelligence 



IMITATION IN DOGS 



Here the method was not to see if imitation could arouse 

 more quickly an act which accident was fairly likely to bring 

 forth sooner or later, but to see if, where accident failed, 

 imitation would succeed. 



3 was found to be unable of himself to escape from box 

 BBi, and was then given a chance to learn from watching i. 

 The back of box BBi was torn off and wire netting substi- 

 tuted for it. Another box with open front was placed di- 

 rectly behind and against box BBi. No. 3, who was put in 

 this second box, could thus see whatever took place in and 

 in front of box BB i (0 at back, high) . The record follows : 



TABLE 6 (a) 



A similar failure to imitate was observed in the case of 

 another simple act. No. i, as may be seen on page 60, 

 had learned to escape from a pen about 8 by 5 feet by jump- 

 ing up and biting a cord which ran from one end of the pen to 

 the other and at the front end was tied to the bolt which 

 held the door. Dogs 2 and 3 had failed in their accidental 



