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THE BIOLOGY OF
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baited ; they play with the hait, even taking
into their" '
mouths’, but if the hook is felt or at all in evidence, they spit
it out—bait and all… The Bass and the
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podlies
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along
the piers_have learnt the same trick. Anglers ëan
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storiesof the big ones that escaped.
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_All shes probably learn by experience.
hat hunger
drives them to learn, is perhaps“ not a fair test of reasoning;
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Yet it must be noted that when in captivity shes areÏvery
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punctùal at meal—times. The‘Chinese have a
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to summon the Golden Carp to their food, but .it._ is more ’1
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probably the
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sight of their keeper that
[_together from all parts, as shes have no
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appreciate the wave—lengths we hear. On the other hand,
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we know from experience that an incautious footstep near,
the bank Will send an impression through the water, that the
Trent doesnot wait to,“ hear
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repeated.
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The little Carplings (Cyprinodonts) get so excited when '
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their keeper approaches, they spring out of the water in 1
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their haste to get at the food, just as chickens _—leäp;i the air } '
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when the corn comes in sight. , And who would think of
? training them to come one at a time inproper order, as
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children have to be taughtî
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Eels kept in a large pond orlake_ assembleat thepreper
__tiî-ne3but again we cannot…tell—Whéther it isthemghtofle f_
his Whistling or bell-rmgmg,thesmeofthefood
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10r their own persistent hUngerthat brmgs them
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together; , But—they arecertainly alWaysfon the
.knowÏΑtlÏe-precise spot Where they are usually fed,
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direct“
,—_froni—': experience.
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Môbius
the —_rapa‘ciOùs Bike — not—to ,injure their“5
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choice
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fOOdWS-OH
repeated this experi—Ÿ
,—ment with—' the
Înäfa _.1'arge},tankî heiî placed some
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.Perch
on the Other ;;s‘idepf a
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glass, partition. Tog_gbegij
the- Per-oh
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strongly. ;objœted*to
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