Animals That Recognize Their Reflections

Dolphin

Dolphins are extremely intelligent. So it’s not surprising that they can recognize their reflections. In a test, researchers put black dots on the dolphins and let them look in a mirror under water. They swam straight to the mirror and spent a lot of time looking into it. They weren’t even distracted by other dolphins. Without the black dots, the mirror wasn’t that interesting.

Dolphin - Photo: alexandro900/Shutterstock

• Table of Contents:
• 1. Introduction
• 2. All About the Mirror Test
• 3. Elephant
• 4. Dolphin
• 5. Chimpanzee
• 6. Magpie
• 7. Gorilla
• 8. Bonobo
• 9. Orangutan
• 10. Orca