Monday, October 30, 2006

Mirror test suggests elephants are self-aware

** HOLD FOR RELEASE UNTIL 5 P.M. EST MONDAY. ** Image provided by National Academy of Sciences of 34-year-old female Asian elephant Happy at the Bronx Zoo in New York. Happy showed researchers that pachyderms can recognize themselves in a mirror _ a highly complex behavior previously known in only a few other species. (AP Photo/National Academy of Sciences Courtesy of Joshua Plotnik Frans de Waal and Diana Reiss.)A 34-year-old female Asian elephant in the Bronx Zoo showed researchers that pachyderms can recognize themselves in a mirror — complex behavior observed in only a few other species.


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