links for 2006-11-01
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“Elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror and use their reflections to explore hidden parts of themselves, a measure of subjective self-awareness that until now has been shown definitively only in humans and apes, researchers reported yesterday.”(tags: news animalintelligence)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/features/302feature1.shtml article at bbc on elephant intelligence called not so Dumbo. Elephants rock!