HELLO IT’S ME A rhesus monkey in a University of Wisconsin–Madison laboratory examines its reflection. Experiments there suggest that these monkeys recognize themselves in mirrors. courtesy L. Populin
Rhesus monkeys typically don’t check themselves out in a mirror — unless they’re wearing funky acrylic forehead blocks attached to hair-thin electrodes implanted in their brains.
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