Dolphins looking in the mirror

2001/05/02 Elhuyar Zientzia

• Zoologia

Dolphins looking in the mirror are able to know themselves. Until now, biologists considered this ability to be human and the greatest primate, but New York Aquarium dolphins have shown that they were wrong.

Man and some primates beyond Africa, placed in front of the mirror, do not know themselves and believe that what is ahead is a friend. Dolphins know that this resemblance is their image. At least so it seems after the proga they have been made: Two dolphins from the New York Aquarium were made up to analyze their behavior in the mirror.

Dolphins Tab and Presley apparently surprised with their deformation as they looked over and over again at the mirror image. In addition, when they changed makeup, they returned to the mirror to see their image.

Anyway, it is not known if they liked the new look.