Gorillas may have greater self-awareness than scientists previously thought. A new study finds that gorillas perform just as well as chimpanzees in tests that require awareness of their own bodies. A ...

Study author Dr. Alecia Carter (UCL Anthropology) said, "We define self-awareness as 'the capacity to become the object of your own attention' and we test this capacity by assessing an individual's ...

Whether animals are self-aware has important implications for our approaches to both animal cognition and animal welfare. A landmark moment in animal cognition research was when great apes passed the ...