Test Your Knowledge Of Animal Intelligence With This Fact-Packed Quiz!
How do we know chimps can recognize themselves in mirrors?
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According to Scientific American, scientists have long considered chimpanzees self-aware because they’ve recognized nits and gnats on their bodies from their mirror images. Since chimpanzees are known to be adept tool users and attentive at grooming themselves (and each other), those traits came together to recognize the mirror’s utility. And in the process, they proved they recognized themselves.
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VCG via Getty Images
How do we know chimps can recognize themselves in mirrors?
- They’ve told us with sign language
- They picked at blemishes and debris they saw in the mirror
- They don’t immediately try to fight themselves
- They were excited to see themselves at first, but got used to it
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