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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