In 2021, Bunny, a TikTok-famous Sheepadoodle, stared at herself in a mirror and asked “who is this?” by tapping her paws on her augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device’s buttons. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
The mirror test has fascinated scientists for decades due to its simplicity and revealing nature. First introduced in 1970 by ...
A dog by the name of Harley has shown herself to be one smart puppy after seemingly deducing that she is looking at her own reflection in the mirror. In a video posted to TikTok under the handle ...
Want to fall down the Internet rabbit hole? Look up videos of the “animal mirror test.” Each has the same premise: Animals — domesticated, wild, doesn’t matter — encounter their own reflections, ...
In 1945, British author George Orwell published the literary classic Animal Farm, which was his first work that consciously wove political intent with artistic purpose, meant as a mirror held up to ...