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IN an excellent paper on “Animal Intelligence” (NATURE, vol. xxvi. p. 523), Mr. C. Lloyd Morgan says that “The brute has to be contented with the experience he inherits or individually acquires. Man, through language spoken or written, profits by the experience of his fellows. Even the most savage tribe has traditions extending back to the father's father. May there not be, in social animals also, traditions from generation to generation, certain habits prevailing in certain communities in consequence neither of inherited instincts nor of individual experience, but simply because the young ones imitate what they see in their elder fellows?
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MUELLER, F. Animal Intelligence. Nature 27, 240–241 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027240b0
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