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The other reason I'm skeptical is ants have very poor vision with a few notable exceptions. I don't know if ant would react to a mirror at all. I will try this with "the girls" later today and see what happens. Will post about this again.

Here is the paper. It was widely discussed ... on reddit for a long time I didn't think it was real.

Ants are painted with dots that match their exoskeletons, some are painted with blue dots. The ants are observed interacting with a mirror.

I've seen this experiment mentioned as a reason why calling the mirror dot test a "test for self awareness" is flawed: a lot of people really don't like this result.

Still, the journal gives me pause. What do you think?

https://www.journalofscience.net/showpdf/MjY4a2FsYWkxNDc4NTIzNjk=

There is a really crazy paper where they did the "mirror dot" test for self recognition on ants. BUT. It's in the "Journal of Science" which isn't "Science" ... and it's odd to have an insect paper not in an insect journal.

And this is their webpage:

https://www.journalofscience.net

Listen I just want this paper to be real, but it's kind of out there and the journal IDK.

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