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To E. B. Tylor   19 June [1880]

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Discusses animals’ ability to learn to recognise danger, especially poisonous herbs.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:  19 June [1880]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 50254: 96–8)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12641

From E. B. Tylor   21 June 1880

Summary

Learning by experience of others: birds being killed by telegraph wires when first set up; sheep in Australia eating poisonous plants.

Author:  Edward Burnett Tylor
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 June 1880
Classmark:  DAR 178: 206
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12642
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