Magpies are no bird-brains, mirror test shows

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Magpies are no bird-brains, mirror test shows

Magpies can recognize themselves in a mirror, highlighting the mental skills of some birds and confounding the notion that self-awareness is the exclusive preserve of humans and a few higher mammals.


It had been thought only chimpanzees, dolphins and elephants shared the human ability to recognize their own bodies in a mirror.


But German scientists reported on Tuesday that magpies — a species with a brain structure very different from mammals — could also identify themselves.


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