In a recent book entitled The Psychic
Life of Insects, Professor Bouvier says that we must be careful not to credit
the little winged fellows with intelligence when they behave in what seems like
an intelligent manner. They may be only reacting. I would like to confront the
professor with an instance of reasoning power on the part of an insect which
cannot be explained away in any other manner. During the summer of 1899, while I was at work on my doctoral thesis, we kept a female wasp at our cottage. It was more like a child of our own than a Wasp, except that it looked more like a wasp than a child of our own. That was one of the ways we told the difference. It was still a young wasp when we got it (thirteen or fourteen years old) and for some time we could not get it to eat or drink, it was so shy. Since it was a femal A. had moved his card index B. had been playing card games C. had knocked over his boxes containing cards D. had looked at his collection of diamonds 我来回答: 提交
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