Self-awareness in dogs needs no mirroring

How neglecting original scientific research and claiming for (re)discovering brings us back on animal cognition [Riassunto in italiano sotto] Dr G.G. jr Gallup and Dr J.R. Anderson recently published an interesting paper in Behavioural Processes entitled “The “olfactory mirror” and other recent attempts to demonstrate self-recognition in non-primate species” (Gallup & Anderson 2018). Generally, I agree…

The sniff test of self-recognition confirmed: dogs have self-awareness

A new research used the alternative approach to the ‘mirror test’ to confirm the hypothesis of self-cognition in dogs as proposed by Dr. Cazzolla Gatti A new research carried out by the Department of Psychology of the Barnard College in the USA, in publication on the journal Behavioural Processes (Horowitz, A., Smelling themselves: Dogs investigate their own odours…