how do animals recognize their own species? Is there some internal mechanism that allows them to recognize their own?

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how do animals recognize their own species? Is there some internal mechanism that allows them to recognize their own?

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They probably don’t recognize them as similar to themselves, but similar to those they grew up with.

If an antelope grows up surrounded by other antelopes, it will consider itself an antelope, and thus recognize every other antelope as similar to itself.

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