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Keller and Marian Breland have a most unusual zoo in Arkansas. In it is a chicken that pecks three times if one asks how much is 21 divided by 7, and four times if one asks what the square root of 16 is. Turkeys run toy trains and pigs pick up clothes and put them in a laundry hamper. Foxes jump for grapes, and porpoises leap through hoops, play catch, and toss a baseball through a basket. They squeal with disappointment when the ball fails to go through. The Brelands claim that apes learn most quickly, and that other animals learn in this order: monkey, raccoon, porpoise, pig, dog, cat, crow, parakeet, parrot, cow, sheep, horse, hamster, rabbit, and squirrel.

Animals do strange things in Florida also. A wild alligator entered the town of Homestead. Some people who saw him thought he wanted to mail a letter, but he passed right by the post office. Then they guessed he had come to town on a shopping spree, for he stopped to look through a store window at an alligator bag. Finally, he was captured by a bystander and taken to the police station. The name of the bystander is not known, for only the alligator was booked.