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===Social motivation=== Another concern with the MSR test is that some species quickly respond aggressively to their mirror reflection as if it were a threatening conspecific, thereby preventing the animal from calmly considering what the reflection actually represents. This may be why monkeys fail the MSR test.<ref name="Couchman">{{cite journal|author=Couchman, J.J.|year=2011|title=Self-agency in rhesus monkeys|journal=Biology Letters|volume=8|issue=1|pages=39β41|doi=10.1098/rsbl.2011.0536|pmc=3259954|pmid=21733868}}</ref><ref name="Anderson">{{cite journal|author=Anderson, J.R.|year=1984|title=Monkeys with mirrors: Some questions for primate psychology|journal=International Journal of Primatology|volume=5|issue=1|pages=81β98|doi=10.1007/bf02735149|s2cid=30888917}}</ref>
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