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I HAVE just tested the inherited powers of swimming in newly hatched pheasants. I find that when placed in tepid water, at the age of about thirty hours, they swim easily with well-coordinated leg-movements and show very little signs of distress.
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MORGAN, C. The Swimming Instinct. Nature 64, 208 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064208a0
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