A Tiny Fish Just Passed a Classic Self-Awareness Test With a Mirror

The small, tropical fish known as a cleaner wrasse has just joined the ranks of various mammals and birds that have passed a classic test for determining self-awareness.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

A Tiny Fish Just Passed a Classic Self-Awareness Test With a Mirror

The small, tropical fish known as a cleaner wrasse has just joined the ranks of various mammals and birds that have passed a classic test for determining self-awareness.

more…

“Never having seen a mirror before, the group of adolescent apes initially treated their reflections as a threat. After a small amount of time, their behaviour changed to reflect an awareness that the image was of their own body, as they used their reflections to groom and study themselves.”

Isn’t that why we put fish in aquariums? So they can enjoy seeing themselves in the reflection from the aquarium walls.

Interesting. I didn’t know that dogs, cats and octopuses fail the mirror test, and that “Humans around the world also often struggle with it, with some cultures not passing until six years of age or older.”

Bubblecar said:

Interesting. I didn’t know that dogs, cats and octopuses fail the mirror test, and that “Humans around the world also often struggle with it, with some cultures not passing until six years of age or older.”

Sounds like it is not an accurate test.

Michael V said:

Bubblecar said:

Interesting. I didn’t know that dogs, cats and octopuses fail the mirror test, and that “Humans around the world also often struggle with it, with some cultures not passing until six years of age or older.”

Sounds like it is not an accurate test.

Perhaps dogs and cats need the smell equivalent of a mirror for the test to be valid.