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MY account of an experiment which you allowed me to record in NATURE of April 16 has been copied into a number of newspapers, and has brought me no few letters. Some of my correspondents explain the negative results of the box-meat experiment by supposing that the dog was too well trained to, “steal” the meat. They have not noticed that I was careful to point out that the box was placed in the yard in which the dog is accustomed to be fed, that he was very eager to get the meat out of it, and that when later in the day he succeeded, he showed no manner of misgiving as to his legal right to its possession.
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HILL, A. Can Dogs Reason?. Nature 68, 7–8 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068007d0
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