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ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE. 
remember. The bun fell j ust 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 us->d . 
the other, but in the same direction. I watched the whole per- 
formance wiuh 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. 6 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*’ 
