A Reasoning Toad | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 19, 1883

A Reasoning Toad.

A brood of chickens were fed with moistened meal in saucers, and when the dough soured a little it attracted large numbers of flies. An observant toad had evidently noticed this, and every day, along toward evening, he would make his appearance in the yard, hop to a saucer, climb in and roll over until he was covered with meal, having done which he awaited developments. The flies, enticed by the smell, soon swarmed around the scheming batrachian, and whenever one passed within two inches or so of his nose his tongue darted out and the fly disappeared. This plan worked so well that the toad made a regular business of it.—Sel.