A rhesus monkey puts its hand near a laser light on its face as it looks at itself in the mirror, during experiments that showed that rhesus monkeys can learn to recognize themselves in the mirror, in ...

Rhesus monkeys typically don’t check themselves out in a mirror — unless they’re wearing funky acrylic forehead blocks attached to hair-thin electrodes implanted in their brains. Given that ...

Charles Darwin wondered if animals were aware of themselves. Allowed to visit a rare orangutan in the London Zoo, he brought a mirror and observed the ape apparently make faces at its own reflection.

When a capuchin monkey looks at its own image in a mirror, something strange happens. The diminutive creature reacts not as if it sees a stranger, as many researchers had assumed. Instead, the ...

If you passed out at a party and someone drew a mustache on your face, you’d know it when you next looked in a mirror. There are a few other species—including great apes, dolphins, and corvids—that ...

Humans have it. So do chimpanzees, bottlenose dolphins, Asian elephants and even magpies. The ability to recognize oneself in the mirror is known as self-recognition, and monkeys weren't thought to be ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Humans use mirrors so reflexively that we’ll often use shop ...

Like people, great apes including chimpanzees, orangutans, bonobos and gorillas have shown they recognize themselves in a mirror. But monkeys? Not so much. Monkeys have consistently failed to display ...

Looking in the mirror and recognizing oneself was long thought to be an ability reserved for humans. Recently, however, researchers have found that other apes, such as chimpanzees and gorillas, seem ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - By about age 2, people can recognize their own reflections in a mirror. Great apes including chimpanzees, orangutans, bonobos and gorillas also have exhibited this key indicator ...