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  2. Diana Reiss - Wikipedia

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    Diana Reiss (born 1948 or 1949 [1] [2] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [3]) is a professor of psychology at Hunter College [4] and in the graduate program of Animal Behavior and Comparative Psychology at the City University of New York.

  3. Cetacean intelligence - Wikipedia

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    The most widely used test for self-awareness in animals is the mirror test, developed by Gordon Gallup in the 1970s, in which a temporary dye is placed on an animal's body, and the animal is then presented with a mirror. [66] In 1995, Marten and Psarakos used television to test dolphin self-awareness. [67]

  4. Mirror test - Wikipedia

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    The hamadryas baboon is one primate species that fails the mirror test.. The mirror test—sometimes called the mark test, mirror self-recognition (MSR) test, red spot technique, or rouge test—is a behavioral technique developed in 1970 by American psychologist Gordon Gallup Jr. as an attempt to determine whether an animal possesses the ability of visual self-recognition. [1]

  5. Cetacea - Wikipedia

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    The most widely used test for self-awareness in animals is the mirror test, in which a temporary dye is placed on an animal's body and the animal is then presented with a mirror. Researchers then explore whether the animal shows signs of self-recognition. [64] Critics claim that the results of these tests are susceptible to the Clever Hans effect.

  6. Margaret Howe Lovatt - Wikipedia

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    Margaret Howe Lovatt (born Margaret C. Howe, in 1942) is an American former volunteer naturalist from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.In the 1960s, she took part in a NASA-funded research project in which she attempted to teach a dolphin named Peter to understand and mimic human speech.

  7. Emotion in animals - Wikipedia

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    Elephants have recently been suggested to pass mirror self-recognition tests, and such tests have been linked to the capacity for empathy. [84] However, the experiment showing such actions did not follow the accepted protocol for tests of self-recognition, and earlier attempts to show mirror self-recognition in elephants have failed, so this ...

  8. Cat intelligence - Wikipedia

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    The brain of the domesticated cat is about five centimetres (2.0 in) long and weighs 25–30 g (0.88–1.06 oz). [1] [2] If a typical cat is taken to be 60 cm (24 in) long with a weight of 3.3 kg (7.3 lb), then the brain would be at 0.91% [3] of its total body mass, compared to 2.33% [3] of total body mass in the average human.

  9. Oceanic dolphin - Wikipedia

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    The most widely used test for self-awareness in animals is the mirror test in which a temporary dye is placed on an animal's body, and the animal is then presented with a mirror; they then see if the animal shows signs of self-recognition. [53] In 1995, Marten and Psarakos used television to test dolphin self-awareness. [54]