Magpies Recognize Mirror Images
It was once thought that self-awarness is what made humans unique from all other animals. Until we discovered that gorillas could recognize themselve in mirrors. Well now we’ve found another animal that also has self awarness. Magpies.
A group of German scientists did a study using magpies where they placed brightly colored stickers on the birds that would only be visible by looking in a mirror. The magpies then saw the stickers in the mirror and scratched them off their bodies.
It looks like we’ll hav to come up with a different definition of what seperates us from all other animals, if anything.
Posted: August 20th, 2008 under Uncategorized.