An Essay On The Difference Between Pig And Raccoons

In the chapter this session, instinctive drift is the most interesting topic that stood out to me. There are two examples of it in the text. One of a pig and the other of a raccoon. The pig was trained to pick up wooden coins with its mouth and to deposit them into a piggy bank. The pig did it multiple times, but over time the pig started to play with the coin by repeatedly dropping it and picking it back up, throwing it into the air, or just simply moving it about with its snout. The raccoon was taught a similar task of putting the coin into the piggy bank. But it would fondle the coin before dropping it into the piggy bank, and sometimes it would dip it in and out of the piggy bank as if it were washing it. When the raccoon was given more