Placing a harmless, odorless mark to some area of the face, and placing food behind a barrier so that only one of two animals can see it are techniques that have been devised to measure an animal's ability in
A) number sense and abstract concepts.
B) insight learning.
C) self-recognition and perspective taking.
D) social learning.

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These techniques are used to assess self-recognition, as in the mirror test where an animal is marked in a way that it can only observe the mark through a mirror, indicating self-awareness. Perspective taking is evaluated by understanding if an animal can comprehend what another animal sees or knows, such as in the case of food being visible to only one animal.

Placing a Harmless, Odorless Mark to Some Area of the Face