Western children first show signs of mirror self-recognition (MSR) from 18 to 24 months of age, the benchmark index of emerging self-concept. Such signs include self-oriented behaviors while looking at the mirror to touch or remove a mark surreptitiously placed on the child’s face. The authors attempted to replicate this finding across cultures using a simplified version of the classic “mark test.” In Experiment 1, Kenyan children (N = 82, 18 to 72 months old) display a pronounced absence of spontaneous self-oriented behaviors toward the mark.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2962372&forum_id=2#28542778)

and some ants: http://www.journalofscience.net/File_Folder/521-532%28jos%29.pdf

reminder that the tallest artificial structures in precolonial Subsaharan Afreaka were built by termites

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2962372&forum_id=2#28542823)

In front of a mirror, and consequently of their reflection view, ants behaved otherwise than when in front of nestmates seen through a glass. Seeing nestmates through a glass, ants behaved as usual, i.e. without taking close notice of them. In front of a mirror, they rapidly moved their head and antennae, to the right and the left, touched the mirror, went away from it and stopped, cleaning then sometimes their legs and antennae. As long as they could not see themselves in a mirror, ants with a blue dot painted on their clypeus did not try to remove it. Set in front of a mirror, ants with such a blue dot on their clypeus tried to clean themselves, while ants with a brown painted dot - of the same color as that of their cuticle - on their clypeus and ants with a blue dot on their occiput did not clean themselves. Very young ants did not present such behavior. Contrary to the other kinds of marking, a blue dot on the clypeus induced aggressiveness in nestmates. The front part of the head is thus an essential species specific character for leading to acceptance. Although further experiments are required, preferentially on ants and social hymenoptera with an excellent visual perception, our observations suggest that some ants can recognize themselves when confronted with their reflection view, this potential ability not necessary implicating some self awareness.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2962372&forum_id=2#28543777)

I think there is a different level of understanding between knowing the thing in the mirror is not real and actually understanding that it is your reflection and using it to see how you look.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2962372&forum_id=2#28551600)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sungbo%27s_Eredo (20 meters)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Zimbabwe (Conical Tower)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2962372&forum_id=2#30951129)

In college I found a bunch of dead ants inside my freezer trying to make their way to my peanut butter pot cookies.

It was crazy because there was a little trail of them and a few had gotten on top of a frozen TV dinner almost making it to the cookies. So close.

I saw the one little ant dude who made it the furthest. I wrote a short story about him.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2962372&forum_id=2#32600454)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Zimbabwe

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2962372&forum_id=2#34724433)

But when Broesch tried the mark mirror test outside the U.S. and Canada, she got some strange results. In Kenya, for instance, only two out of 82 children, some as old as six, passed. But the kids who did not pass were not psychologically damaged or lacking empathy [sic?]. And most displayed what Broesch calls "freezing" behavior—the children did not greet or smile at their reflection. Instead, they stood still and seemed deeply uncomfortable."

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/kids-and-animals-who-fail-classic-mirror/

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2962372&forum_id=2#28548138)

I would be interested to see if a child in the U.S. in that IQ range would pass the test. I bet they wouldn't.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2962372&forum_id=2#28548336)

Therefore, mirrors are racist.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2962372&forum_id=2#28548951)

2. thread title is great but wish a different avifauna had been chosen

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2962372&forum_id=2#28553578)

already best of the best of xoxo.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2962372&forum_id=2#28552966)

let that sink in.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2962372&forum_id=2#28553399)