The test of mirror self-recognition is a highly stable trait in many chimpanzees, but may be subject to decline with age.
Gordon Gallup believes that in later life chimpanzees prefer to lose their ability to conceive of themselves.
“The price you pay for being aware of your own existence is having to confront the inevitability of your own individual demise.
“Death awareness is the price we pay for self awareness.”
Duck breast with pressed duck carcass blood sauce
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French gourmands are to be denied what one restaurant critic describes as the “barbaric pleasure” of feasting on tiny songbirds after their government announced that it intended finally to enforce laws that have been on the statute books for eight years.
Long considered the pinnacle of gastronomic delight by the French, the ortolan is a protected species after being hunted almost out of existence.
The prized birds can fetch up to €150 (£102) each if sold illegally to restaurants. Diners savour the ritual almost as much as the flavour.
It is eaten with the diner’s head covered by a napkin. Some say the napkin helps the diner savour the aroma, others that it is intended to conceal his greed from God.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1562561/Franceandrsquos-songbird-delicacy-is-outlawed.html
