Show ANIMALS HAVE NO INSTINCT acquire their knowledge of what Is good to eat and what Is harmful by experience animals seem to acquire their k knowledge now ledge of poisonous plants from experience and ana not by any innate instinct our domestic animals when transported to other countries at first eat poisonous plants which they learn afterwards to avoid snell observed that strange sheep frequently fell vie victims to the poisonous hellebore that grows abundantly in the valley of the alin aim but that it Is carefully avoided by the sheep of the neighborhood writes raymond crawford in the london lancet lambs lambi and calves grazing in the same field as their mothers are far more prone than they to eat poisonous plants morgan concluded from observations ions of feeding young birds with various caterpillars beetles and worms that in the absence of parental guidance young birds have to learn by experience per peri lence ence what Is good to eat and ishac hat is not and that they have no instinctive aversions at first they peck at everything but once they have found that a particular thing Is distasteful or harmful in future they entirely avoid it |