Rhesus Monkey can recognize their face after Training-discovery to sheds light on the neural basis of self-awareness in humans and other animals.

Unlike humans and great apes, rhesus monkeys don't realize when they look in a mirror that it is their own face looking back at them. But, according to a report in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on January 8, that doesn't mean they can't learn. What's more, once rhesus monkeys in the study developed mirror self-recognition, they continued to use mirrors spontaneously to explore parts of their bodies they normally don't see. The discovery in monkeys sheds light on the neural basis of self-awareness in humans and other animals.


 

Reference to article in Science Daily: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150108130047.htm

Journal Reference: Liangtang Chang, Gin Fang, Shikun Zhang, Mu-Ming Poo, Neng Gong. Mirror-Induced Self-Directed
Behaviors in Rhesus Monkeys after Visual-Somatosensory Training. Current Biology, January 2015 DOI link

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