Dolphin Close-Ups
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Heretofore, zoologists believed that only primates (humans, chimps and possibly other apes) could recognize their own images in a mirror. Self-recognition is one of those things that sets some of us apart from other animals. Well, as NPR's John Nielsen reports, dolphins also now make the grade, according to some ingenious experiments in tanks with mirrors.
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