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  2. Animal consciousness - Wikipedia

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    The animals are then allowed to see their reflection in a mirror; if the animal spontaneously directs grooming behaviour towards the mark, that is taken as an indication that they are aware of themselves. [66] [67] Over the past 30 years, many studies have found evidence that animals recognise themselves in mirrors. Self-awareness by this ...

  3. Mirror test - Wikipedia

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    The hamadryas baboon is one of many primate species that has been administered the mirror test.. The mirror test—sometimes called the mark test, mirror self-recognition (MSR) test, red spot technique, or rouge test—is a behavioral technique developed in 1970 by American psychologist Gordon Gallup Jr. to determine whether an animal possesses the ability of visual self-recognition. [1]

  4. Animals' Understanding of Death Can Teach Us About Our Own - AOL

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    They clearly weren’t mourning the albino baby’s death. Instead, their behavior seemed dominated by an attitude of curiosity. But this did not detract from their understanding of what had happened.

  5. Animal cognition - Wikipedia

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    The best known research technique in this area is the mirror test devised by Gordon G. Gallup, in which an animal's skin is marked in some way while it is asleep or sedated, and it is then allowed to see its reflection in a mirror; if the animal spontaneously directs grooming behavior towards the mark, that is taken as an indication that it is ...

  6. Mirror stage - Wikipedia

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    A toddler and a mirror. The mirror stage (French: stade du miroir) is a concept in the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan.The mirror stage is based on the belief that infants recognize themselves in a mirror (literal) or other symbolic contraption which induces apperception (the turning of oneself into an object that can be viewed by the child from outside themselves) from the age of about ...

  7. Theory of mind in animals - Wikipedia

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    The study included an experiment in which a subordinate animal was allowed to choose between food that a dominant animal could also see and food that it could not; those who were subject to aggressive behaviour selected the food that the dominant animal could not see, suggesting that they are able to perceive a threat based on being within the ...

  8. Tinbergen's four questions - Wikipedia

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    Mechanisms: Social, psychological mate choice, genetic, neurobiological, and endocrinological mechanisms cause romantic love. Ontogeny: Romantic love can first manifest in childhood, manifests with all its characteristics following puberty, but can manifest across the lifespan.

  9. The Lives of Animals - Wikipedia

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    O'Hearne then proposes that animals do not understand death with the full consciousness of self with which humans regard death; therefore, to kill an animal quickly and painlessly is ethical. [17] O'Hearne's final point is that people cannot be friends with animals because we do not understand them.