238 ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE 
These organs are now thinner, held more erect, and 
better unfolded, so to speak. 
16th day.—I think they begin to distinguish objects 
by sight, though it is difficult to demonstrate this. 
It is impossible to produce the winking reflex till the 
eyes are actually touched. 
17th day.—It is difficult now to say whether they 
approach objects through sight or smell. 
18th day.—When I sneezed close to their box to-day, 
they all huddled together, in a startled way, in a corner 
of their nest, in a manner very characteristic of older 
rabbits when alarmed. 
By the manner in which they leave and enter their 
nests, I conclude that they retain the memory of the 
relations of objects, apart from visual and olfactory 
sensations. 
The mother is now weaning her offspring. 
One is seen circling around in the box, as if attempt- 
ing to find the mother by feeling, making it doubtful if 
distinct vision is even yet possible to them. 
To-day they eat clover. 
20th day.—They not only eat green food, but gnaw 
at a crust of stale bread. 
They jump about in the box, as if playing. 
They seem to follow by smell a green stalk I hold in 
my hand. 
One is so startled by my sneezing that it jumped off 
the top of a barrel on which I had placed it. 
The ears are now relatively longer and thinner, and 
are better held. 
21st day.—They detect objects (food) by smell at an 
increased distance. 
They are leaping about a good deal, apparently from 
excess of vitality. 
22nd day.—They follow my finger as I move it, so that 
I think there is now no doubt that this is done by sight. 
