Mary Bates, PhD

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Testing Self-Awareness in Wolves

Grey wolf. Source: Bert de Tilly, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

In an olfactory mirror test for self-recognition, wolves demonstrate they know the difference between “self” and “other.”

Read about the study on my Animal Minds blog: Wolves Demonstrate Self-Awareness in Sniff Test.