(February 9, 2012 at 8:36 pm)padraic Wrote: Some animals are also self aware.EG dolphins and some apes can recognise their image in a mirror as themselves. Virtually no other animals have that ability,as far as I'm aware.
Awareness update: elephants also recognize their mirror images as themselves. As do Orcas, Belugas, Bonobos, Chimps, Orangs, and Gorillas. The jury is still out on Gibbons (also primates) and other whales. But since we discovered a couple years ago that whales have 5 times as many spindle cells in their brains as humans do – spindle cells govern emotion – it looks like it's only a matter of time before we will have to accept that all whales are self-aware too.
