... <turtoni@fastmail.net> wrote in news:327da02b-68b7-49e6-bbca- bd2546df5370@x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com: Magpies can recognise themselves in a mirror, scientists have found - the first time self-recognition has been ... non-mammal. Not at all surprising. The entire corvid family (magpies, crows, ravens) exhibits high intelligence, in all kinds of ways....

...chimpanzees and orangutans can recognise their own their reflections. Some birds react ... of self- consciousness or self-reflection typical of humans," the researchers ... findings do, however, show that magpies respond in the mirror and ... how people also get their reflections confused with their true identity.... and then compare with others reflections. Also, the experiment would have ...

... chimpanzees and orangutans can recognise their own their reflections. Some birds react when...know they are looking at their reflection, German experts wrote in Plos Biology...When no mirror was present, the magpies took no notice of the stickers... of self- consciousness or self-reflection typical of humans," the researchers ...The findings do, however, show that magpies respond in the mirror and ...

...) wrote: Until relatively recently, humans were thought to be uniquely self- aware. A ridiculous belief, if it encompassed anything much beyond that failure to identify with reflections. Animals flee predators and potential harm, acts of self-preservation for which there is no point in doing if an organism lacks the capacity to distinguish between itself and everything ...

...if it encompassed anything much beyond that failure to identify with reflections. Animals flee predators and potential harm, acts of self-...can be differentiated, allowing the the organism to recognize the reflection as itself, rather than as another bird. It also indicates ...a more definitive role. Dogs and cats do not recognize reflections even as cats or dogs, much less as specifically ...

>Until relatively recently, humans were thought to be uniquely self- aware. A ridiculous belief, if it encompassed anything much beyond that failure to identify with reflections. Animals flee predators and potential harm, acts of self-preservation for which there is no point in doing if an organism lacks the capacity to distinguish between itself and everything else. "Oh, the lion ...