{"fact":"Common Ravens seem to be more interested in mirrors than other types of shiny surfaces, suggesting they're not just drawn to anything that glitters!","context":"While the wooden board did not possess any reflective properties...the mirror and the silver foil constituted new materials with shiny properties, of which only the mirror provided a perfect reflection of the bird’s body...only ravens showed a clear preference for the mirror compared to the other surfaces and performed more self-directed behaviors when in front of the mirror.","source":"Lisa-Claire Vanhooland; Anita Szab'o; Thomas Bugnyar; Jorg J. M. Massen, A comparative study of mirror self-recognition in three corvid species, 10.1007/s10071-022-01696-4","index":644}