Shown its reflection in a mirror, a small reef fish scraped at a mark it could see only there, behaving as if it recognized itself – though the researchers stopped short of calling it self-aware

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When a cleaner wrasse spotted a colored mark on its own throat only by looking in a mirror, it tried to scrape the mark off, a response that meets the textbook criteria of the mirror mark test. The scientists who ran the experiment still declined to call the fish self-aware. The post Shown its reflection in a mirror, a small reef fish scraped at a mark it could see only there, behaving as if it recognized itself – though the researchers stopped short of calling it self-aware appeared first on Space Daily .