Show ANIMALS HAVE NO INSTINCT t Acquire Their Knowledge of What It Is I Good to Eat and What Is I. Harmful Harmful Harm Harm- Harm ful by Experience Animals seem secra to acquire their k knowledge of poisonous plants from experience and amI not by an any innate Instinct instinct in In- our domestic animals when transported to other countries at first eat poisonous plants which they learn afterwards to avoid ovoid Snell observed that strange sheep frequently fell victims victims vic vie tims thus to the time poisonous hellebore that grows abundantly In the valley of the time Ahn but that It Is carefully avoided by the sheep of ot the neighborhood writes Raymond Crawford in the Lon Lou London London don Lancet Lambs Lombs and calves grazing in the same field as os their mothers are ure far tar more IDore prone than they to eat poisonous plants Morgan concluded from observations observations observations ob ob- of feeding young birds with various caterpillars beetles and worms that In the absence of parental guid guld- guidance guidance ance ante young birds have to learn by experience ex ex- ex what is good to eat and und what Is not and that they have no instinctive instinctive in in- aversions At first they peck at everything but once they have found that a u particular thing is distasteful dIstasteful distasteful dis dIs- tasteful or harmful in future th they y entirely en en- avoid It lt |