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Roosters' behavior might indicate that they recognize themselves in their reflection, even though they fail traditional mirror tests

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Roosters do not warn the bird in the mirror: The cognitive ecology of mirror self-recognition

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Maline rooster in front of a mirror.

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Credit: Sonja Hillemacher, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Roosters' behavior might indicate that they recognize themselves in their reflection, even though they fail traditional mirror tests

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0291416

Article Title: Roosters do not warn the bird in the mirror: The cognitive ecology of mirror self-recognition

Author Countries: Germany

Funding: Supported by the German Research Council (DFG) through Gu 227/16-1 (OG) and by ERC-2020-ADG, AVIAN MIND, LS5, GA No. 101021354 (OG). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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