New research suggests beluga whales can recognize themselves in mirrors, a cognitive ability previously demonstrated in only ...

The mirror test focuses on visual cues; however, there is no reason to think that other animals only use vision to make some assessments of self. The results of studies of self-recognition are a mixed ...

A species of penguin may have just seen itself into an exclusive club of creatures that recognize themselves in the mirror. An Indian research team put a dozen Adélie penguins in East Antarctica ...

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Researchers report that mice display behavior that resembles self-recognition when they see themselves in the mirror. When the researchers marked the foreheads of black-furred mice with a spot of ...

What are nonhumans reflecting about when they see their own reflections? What do they know about themselves? "...in light of Darwin’s principle of evolutionary continuity, we urge abandonment of the ...

A new study revealed that beluga whales can recognize themselves in a mirror. Here, a female beluga and her calf swim in the Canadian Arctic. Beluga whales have some of the most iconic faces in the ...

Three California two-spot octopuses learned to use a mirror to find a live crab hidden behind them, choosing the correct side ...

Daniel Povinelli was in high school when he first read about a clever experiment, published in 1970, that showed chimpanzees—but not monkeys--can recognize themselves in mirrors. "I bought into the ...