Scientists have finally made horses recognise themselves in a mirror, and they don't like it one bit
https://theconversation.com/horses-can-recognise-themselves-in-a-mirror-new-study-158447
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-021-01502-7
@g1comics they are so valid. put the mirrors back
@g1comics the what now
a total aside
@anarchiv the very news sidebar baiting https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1015257004839. It's paywalled, so *definitely do not* go and get the copy on sci-hub at e.g. https://sci-hub.st/10.1023/a:1015257004839 because that would be *piracy* and that would be *bad and naughty*
Reportedly not too bad as a study, but picked up by the obvious rw cranks since for its male ego-stroking and Christianity-justifying properties. Also right on the edge of a mildy problematic field littered with pseudoscientific just-so stories
Delightfully, in this context, the inventor of the MSR test is named Gordon Gallup. Less delightfully, he's the man behind the 2002 antidepressant semen paper.