The Importance of Motacilla Alba Behavior on Hitting Its Own Mirror Reflection

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By:Yan ZHANG, Greg Mirt, Fan XU, Fangfang LIU

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30564/jzr.v1i3.1977

Abstract:

Self-awareness is considered as a capability of recognize oneself and increasingly received attention. However, self-awareness in the bird Motacilla Alba is unclear. To study the self-recognition in Motacilla Alba, the subject is observed by mirror while eating. The bird performed the look around, confirm again the surroundings, become alert, hit the mirror. These behaviors suggests that presently Motacilla Alba does not have the capacity of self-awareness by the test.

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