Fish, mirrors, and a gradualist perspective on self-awareness

If a fish can pass the mark test, what are the implications for consciousness and self-awareness testing in animals?

(2019) Masanori Kohda et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Precocious development of self-awareness in dolphins

(2018) Rachel Morrison et al.   PLoS One

Elephants know when their bodies are obstacles to success in a novel transfer task

(2017) Rachel Dale et al.   Scientific Reports

Contingency checking and self-directed behaviors in giant manta rays: Do elasmobranchs have self-awareness?

(2016) Csilla Ari et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHOLOGY

Mirror-Induced Self-Directed Behaviors in Rhesus Monkeys after Visual-Somatosensory Training

(2015) Liangtang Chang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mirror self-recognition: a review and critique of attempts to promote and engineer self-recognition in primates

(2015) James R. Anderson et al.   PRIMATES

A group-specific arbitrary tradition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

(2014) Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Lack of mirror use by pigs to locate food

(2014) Elise T. Gieling et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Social cognition in fishes

(2014) Redouan Bshary et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) Do Recognize Themselves in the Mirror: Implications for the Evolution of Self-Recognition

(2010) Abigail Z. Rajala et al.   PLoS One

Towards a bottom-up perspective on animal and human cognition

(2010) Frans B.M. de Waal et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Pigs learn what a mirror image represents and use it to obtain information

(2009) Donald M. Broom et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Mirror-Induced Behavior in the Magpie (Pica pica): Evidence of Self-Recognition

(2008) Helmut Prior et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY