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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: them, with the real pill among them, it is seldom that the Lycosa
recovers her own property. Attempts at enquiry, attempts at
selection there are none. Whatever she snaps up at random she
sticks to, be it good or bad. As there are more of the sham pills
of cork, these are the most often seized by the Spider.
This obtuseness baffles me. Can the animal be deceived by the soft
contact of the cork? I replace the cork balls by pellets of cotton
or paper, kept in their round shape with a few bands of thread.
Both are very readily accepted instead of the real bag that has
been removed.
Can the illusion be due to the colouring, which is light in the
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