Biochemical Soul » monkey http://biochemicalsoul.com Musings on Nature, Science, Evolution, Biology, and Education Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:54:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Self-Recognition in Apes http://biochemicalsoul.com/2009/03/self-recognition-apes/ http://biochemicalsoul.com/2009/03/self-recognition-apes/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:44:39 +0000 Irradiatus http://biochemicalsoul.com/?p=1180 Here is an awesome NGC video I saw a while back. I dug it up because it goes along nicely with our ongoing conversation on Medical Research in Animal Models, including discussions of self-awareness in animals.

Be sure to check out the sequence starting at 1:50, which shows the different responses between monkeys, apes, and humans in the mirror-test.

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