Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rhesus monkey puts its hand near a laser light on its face as it looks at itself in the mirror, during experiments that showed ...

For the first time, scientists have found that monkeys can recognize themselves in mirrors, which hints that they are self-aware. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results.

The line between humans and animals just got a lot thinner. As much as people love their pets, we rarely consider them our equals. Even animals like chimps or monkeys, which are our closer ...

Like people, great apes including chimpanzees, orangutans, bonobos and gorillas have shown they recognize themselves in a mirror. But monkeys? Not so much. Monkeys have consistently failed to display ...