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As mentioned in the article, Elephants can recognise themselves. The article mentions the example of elephants using "their trunks to touch white crosses on the
by chestnut-tree 12y ago
As mentioned in the article, Elephants can recognise themselves. The article mentions the example of elephants using "their trunks to touch white crosses on their foreheads". You can see this in the following clip from the 2011 Royal Institution Lectures (in London) which discusses the idea of "sense of self"
http://youtu.be/_Voh-hL2BLg?t=43m44s http://youtu.be/_Voh-hL2BLg?t=43m44s
- ChuckMcM 12y agoThere is a counter argument which is also called out in the article: "[David Povenelli] has come to believe that a chimp doesn’t need to have an integrated sense of self in order to pass the mirror test. Instead, it needs only to notice that the body in the mirror looks and moves the same as its own body, and then make the connection that if there’s a spot on the body in the mirror, there could also be a spot on its own body." So the question of "Does the chimp see a reflection as another chimp or a chimp on this side of the mirror?" is the fundamental question. A two chimp experiment might resolve that question, which is can the Chimp distinguish between a visual of a chimp and the actual chimp when both are present.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5lU52aWTJo&noredirect=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5lU52aWTJo&noredirect=1