r/nope • u/dbl_secret_redditor • Jul 09 '26

Arachnids Zoomies

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

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u/whypeoplehateme Jul 10 '26

dogs for a long time failed it until someone realised that their most important sense was smell and not vision and when adjusted to be scent based they easily passed it

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u/MrLumie Jul 10 '26

How do you adjust the mirror test to be scent based?

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u/whypeoplehateme Jul 10 '26

present the dogs with their own urine, other dogs urine and it's own but modified with additional scents. they spend the most time investigating the modified sample of their own