Elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror, joining only humans, apes and dolphins as animals that possess this kind of self-awareness, researchers now report.
"This would seem to be a trait common to and independently evolved by animals with large, complex brains, complex social lives and known capacities for empathy and altruism, even though the animals all have very different kinds of brains," researcher Diana Reiss, a senior cognitive research scientist at the Wildlife Conservation Society in Brooklyn, N.Y., told LiveScience.
Hopefully, she added, this will encourage people to protect elephants.
Take a look at the following clip from “Through The Wormhole” and you’ll see what I mean! Please SHARE with others!
By Heidi Shebaro
Founder of "The Kindness Project in the Middle East", a teacher and a blogger
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