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thenewgreen  ·  3668 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Do Animals See in the Mirror?

Interesting thing to consider. As a child we had a fish tank and in it, a Siamese Fighting Fish. If you held up a mirror to the tank, it would flare it's fins and charge at it. They're very aggressive towards fellow males. In fact, if you were to put a mirror in the tank it would likely die from exhaustion, due to a never ending garage of attacks.

I have a one year old and we spend a lot of time these days waiving "hello" and "goodbye" at his reflection. I look forward to when he realizes he is waiving to himself.