What do octopuses see in a mirror image? “When the octopus approached the mirror, it changed colour – but only the side facing the mirror changed", says Eduardo Sampaio. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

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 ...

Scrape, cluck, lay eggs—that's it? Anyone involved in chicken farming knows that the animals are capable of much more. Researchers at the Universities of Bonn and Bochum, together with the MSH Medical ...

For decades, scientists have used mirrors to explore one of the most intriguing questions in animal behavior: can animals recognize themselves? The answer has historically been yes for only a small ...

The mirror test—sometimes called the mark test, mirror self-recognition (MSR) test, red spot technique, or rouge test—is a behavioral technique developed in 1970 by American psychologist Gordon Gallup ...

But, given the monkeys quickly familiarized themselves with their mirror image, it also suggests that they don't consider their reflection to be a stranger." Ethical permission to conduct the research ...