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of the food, following usually immediately upon the completion 

 of the last (" successful") act, stamps in that movement. The 

 successful act was to dig away the sawdust in exactly the right 

 place and enter b. But these animals after entering b ran im- 



TABLE 1 



Showing complete records of the twelve animals used in the experiment. One trial 



per day given 



mediately to the food box. Finding it closed they became fran- 

 tic. They would fight the rod, tear at the box, then they would 

 leave the neighborhood of the food box momentarily, pass back 

 through c to the under-floor space, and then return to the food 



