Self-awareness may be beyond primates in the wild. Chimps, organutans and other species faced with a mirror react to a dot on their face in the lab, a widely used measure of self-awareness. But while ...

For decades, scientists have used mirrors to explore one of the most intriguing questions in animal behavior: can animals recognize themselves? The answer has historically been yes for only a small ...

It was the first time a controlled laser mark test has been done on these animals in a wild setting and strengthens the evidence from other studies that monkeys don't recognize their own reflection.

Humans like to study themselves in a mirror. But wild baboons, when presented with a mirror, don’t seem to recognize they’re staring at their own selves, a new study has found. For decades, ...

Beluga whales have some of the most iconic faces in the sea, with their marshmallow noggins and upturned mouths—and a new paper reveals they’re more self-aware than previously known. The whales join a ...