text_combined: 6 136 language species brief remark propos bemji wald comment chomsky comment whether apes shown command reflexivization particular question whether recognizing image mirror elf would sign ability interest cats peculiar relationship mirrors experience cats recognize images mirrors tv etc threedimensional simply disregard smart cats recogtnize images cats mirrors almost invariably nonself typical reaction cat seeing mirror recognizer bristle hiss go defensemode sometimes attackmode course raises like call dr doolittle problem since cant talk animals anthropomorphise try guess analogy might sense feels like whatever case reflexivity bad example general animals nature opportunity see animals confront mirror like objects lot say surface predators hunt water like herons cats raccoons probably must deliberately disregard image see concentrate refraction surface roger lass department linguistics university cape town