Why is self recognition in front of mirrors is an indicator of intelligence in animals?
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It’s more a question of self awareness than anything. For the longest time, it was considered that there could be no intelligence without self awareness. One cannot change its own comportment, if one doesn’t know it is something that can be impacted. If you don’t know you are, you don’t know you could be.
Important to note that this method is not extremely reliable, and that some may be self aware even when failing the test, but that maybe eyesight isn’t the way to go for them. Some were aware of their own song or scent.
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