๐ŸœAnts

Ants pass the mirror test, which even dogs can't do. So not only are ants sentient, they are self-aware. They are also obviously social creatures which demonstrates significant intelligence.

"when the ants were presented with a mirror, the blue-painted ants took notice. The blue-marked ants attempted to clean themselves after looking in the mirror while ants with brown dots did not" http://www.storagetwo.com/blog/2016/1/self-awareness-the-animals-that-know-themselves

"Set in front of a mirror, ants with such a blue dot on their clypeus tried to clean themselves, while ants with a brown painted dot โ€’ of the same color as that of their cuticle โ€’ on their clypeus and ants with a blue dot on their occiput did not clean themselves" https://www.scinapse.io/papers/2180773430

"Ginsburg & Jablonka (2019, p. 351) attribute sentience to vertebrates, cephalopods, arthropods (insects and crustaceans) and possibly some annelids (worms). Godfreyโ€Smith (2016) has also defended an inclusive view, writing that โ€˜the world is fuller, more replete with experience, than many people have countenancedโ€™ (2020, p. 279)" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9285591/

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