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Elsa the dog and the wiremesh/ Elsa, el perro y la malla de alambre

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Scientists doing research about intelligence conducted the following experimentation:    I haven't got a wire mesh so you'll get a wooden barrier instead    They put a dog behind a wire mesh barrier and a juicy attractive piece of meat on the other side. This barrier was straight and not very long. The scientists noticed that it did not take long for the dog to get around the barrier and take hold of the meat.   Elsa, five years old, daughter of the leader of the scientific team, thinks that her father should play with her rather than with a dog.   Then, the scientists renew the protocol with a chicken and juicy attractive grain of corn. They notice with great interest that the chicken, instead of running around the mesh barrier, collides with it again and again in a vain attempt to reach the object of its desire. The poor bird nearly strangles itself by pushing its head through a hole in the mesh but it’s not going to eat. The scientific team

The black seagull

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 A seagull coated with oil tries to take off. It shakes its wings, with great difficulty. It throws two or three drops of dark mud onto two other seagulls. They are more or less white. They were passing by...   “Oh! That’s disgusting! You, Dirty, watch what you’re doing!”    “I am sorry” answers the black seagull sheepishly.     The white ones move away. They hold their heads high. They do not look at their feet. They never look at their feet, never ever. As they say, seagulsl have no f... When they fly, spreading their white wings in the blue sky, they are so proud!   And when they land... Everybody gets by. Seagulls do not speak about that sort of things, that’s so embarrassing!   But look... One of them stumbles over something. It gets hurt....”Ouch!”   It does not look at its feet. It looks around... “Your fault Dirty!” It throws an oyster at the black seagull. “Ouch!” That does hurt too...   From within the oyster, a little shy voice asks: “May I open now?”   “Oh