1. Self-awareness in animals
... injury to divert the predator's attention, (Griffin, 1982). One attempt to investigate deception in animals experimentally was Premack and Woodruff's experiment on chimpanzees, (1978, cited in Walker, 1983). This involved food being placed in one of two containers, witnessed by a chimpanzee, which was then searched for by either a "co-operative" participant, who shared the ... food if found on the first attempt, or a "competitive" participant who did not. If the competitive participant failed to find the food the chimpanzees were then able to retrieve it for themselves. It soon became c...
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